{"id":42672,"date":"2026-07-12T19:11:01","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42672"},"modified":"2026-07-12T19:11:01","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:11:01","slug":"furmans-hometown-grabs-no-10-spot-on-travel-and-leisures-worlds-best-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-hometown-grabs-no-10-spot-on-travel-and-leisures-worlds-best-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s hometown grabs No. 10 spot on Travel and Leisure&#8217;s World&#8217;s Best Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, Furman University&#8217;s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/worlds-best-awards-best-cities-in-us-11952432#wba-explorer-mega-nav\">Travel+Leisure&#8217;s<\/a> list of World&#8217;s Best Cities in 2026. Drawing on a growing list of accolades and votes from more than 200,000 readers, Travel and Leisure picks Greenville for the No. 10 spot, down from last year&#8217;s place at No. 8. Travel and Leisure highlights five can&#8217;t miss things to do in the city including lodging at the Grand Bohemian, dining at Soby&#8217;s, strolling Falls Park on the Reedy River, tasting craft beer at Southernside Brewing Co., or taking a ride or walk along the 28-mile Prisma Health Swamp Rabbit Trail that connects downtown with neighborhoods, parks and nearby Travelers Rest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/news\/greenville-top-city-travel-leisure\/article_073f7986-df3e-4084-9e7b-7e45735fa469.html\">The Post and Courier Greenville<\/a> also covered the news in an article that may require a subscription. Furman ID holders can access the content through databases located at Furman University Libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second consecutive year, Furman&#8217;s hometown of Greenville, South Carolina, makes the top 10 in Travel and Leisure&#8217;s World&#8217;s Best Awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35,2070],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-travel-and-leisure"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672","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=42672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42675,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions\/42675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}