{"id":4198,"date":"2015-11-19T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/what-really-matters-read-president-davis-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T15:06:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T20:06:02","slug":"what-really-matters-read-president-davis-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/what-really-matters-read-president-davis-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"What Really Matters? Read President Davis&#8217; Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/newspress.furman.edu\/2015\/11\/what-really-matters-president-davis-lecture\/\">President Davis\u2019 \u201cWhat Really Matters?\u201d Lecture<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19912\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-8.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19912\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19912 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/elizabeth-davis-town-8.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Elizabeth Davis\" width=\"225\" height=\"257\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/257;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Elizabeth Davis<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University President Elizabeth Davis talked about what is truly important and why thinking like an accountant is not necessarily a bad thing when she delivered the \u201cWhat Really Matters?\u201d lecture on campus Tuesday evening in the Daniel Chapel.<\/p>\n<p>Her talk was part of L.D. Johnson Lecture Series that honors the memory of the late L.D. Johnson, who served as chaplain and professor of religion at Furman for nearly 15 years before his death in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Davis became Furman\u2019s 12th President on July 1, 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman President Elizabeth Davis talked about what is truly important and why thinking like an accountant is not necessarily a bad thing when she delivered the \u201cWhat Really Matters?\u201d lecture on campus Tuesday evening in the Daniel Chapel.\u00a0Her talk was part of L.D. Johnson Lecture Series that honors the memory of the late L.D. Johnson, who served as chaplain and professor of religion at Furman for nearly 15 years before his death in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}