{"id":4244,"date":"2015-12-21T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T01:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/21\/making-the-holidays-a-little-brighter\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:42:20","slug":"making-the-holidays-a-little-brighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/making-the-holidays-a-little-brighter\/","title":{"rendered":"Making the holidays a little brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20318\" style=\"width: 269px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/riley-epl-1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20318 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/riley-epl-1-medium.png\" alt=\"Jeremiah Drummond, right, is an Emerging Public Leader in the Riley Institute.\" width=\"259\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 259px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 259\/300;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeremiah Drummond, right, is an Emerging Public Leader in the Riley Institute.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jeremiah Drummond, a Dorman High School senior, is helping needy families capture the Christmas spirit this year by providing free holiday portraits to needy families.\u00a0 His initiative, \u201cPicture a Family Together,\u201d is a service project he developed for the Riley Institute&#8217;s Emerging Public Leaders program at Furman. When Drummond and a team of volunteers spent a morning at the Spartanburg Soup Kitchen photographing people for their holiday\u00a0photos, their efforts were chronicled\u00a0by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/news\/Upstate-teen-offers-free-holiday-portraits-for-families-in-need\/37035798?src=app\">WYFF-TV<\/a><\/strong>, FOX Carolina and the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goupstate.com\/article\/20151218\/ARTICLES\/151219676?tc=ar\">Spartanburg Herald Journal<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/wspa.com\/2015\/12\/20\/high-school-student-to-take-free-family-photos-at-soup-kitchen\/\">WSPA-TV<\/a><\/strong> also reported on Drummond\u2019s efforts to reach out to the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremiah Drummond, a Dorman High School senior, is helping needy families capture the Christmas spirit this year by providing free holiday portraits to needy families.\u00a0 His initiative, \u201cPicture a Family [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":15661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244","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=4244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}