{"id":42088,"date":"2026-04-23T13:03:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42088"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:08:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T17:08:38","slug":"more-love-for-riley-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/more-love-for-riley-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"More love for Riley the dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rainbow-bridge\/\">Riley&#8217;s Pet Rainbow Bridge<\/a> on Furman News has captured the hearts of local media. Riley, a golden retriever-basset mix who visited Furman University as part of her daily routine, is at the center of a structure on campus that honors her and other pets who have passed away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/local-news-covers-tribute-to-unofficial-campus-mascot-riley\/\">WYFF News 4<\/a> covered the story, followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/20\/rainbow-bridge-at-furman-greenville-sc-holds-meaning-for-students-why-they-painted-it\/89664934007\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>, which also offered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/picture-gallery\/news\/local\/greenville\/2026\/04\/20\/photos-furman-students-paint-rainbow-bridge-for-universitys-unofficial-mascot\/89663649007\/\">photo gallery<\/a> of the bridge, complete with tiny pawprints. For <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/state\/south-carolina\/article315487364.html\">The State<\/a>, journalist Lyn Riddle also penned a story that was picked up by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercedsunstar.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/article315487364.html\">Merced Sun-Star<\/a>. Before Riley crossed the Rainbow Bridge last year, Furman News posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/rileys-love\/\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A subscription may be required to view the content. Furman ID holders can access the articles through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley captured the hearts of many when she made daily treks on campus with her humans. Now, Riley&#8217;s Pet Rainbow Bridge inspires local media to tell her story. See coverage on WYFF, The State and The Greenville News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,52,2262,1640,3508],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-library","category-the-greenville-news","category-the-state","category-wyff-news-4"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42088"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42095,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42088\/revisions\/42095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}