{"id":4273,"date":"2016-01-12T19:28:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T19:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/01\/12\/charleston-organist-ludlum-retires\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:15","slug":"charleston-organist-ludlum-retires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/charleston-organist-ludlum-retires\/","title":{"rendered":"Charleston organist Ludlum retires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Doug-Ludlam-at-organ-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20478 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Doug-Ludlam-at-organ-sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Doug Ludlam at organ, sized\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a>After 35 years as Organist and Director of Music at the historic St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C., W. Douglas Ludlum is stepping down. The 73-year-old stalwart graduated Furman in 1965, then went on to Union Theological Seminary in New York. He also spent time in Vietnam, and later developed a love for the musical traditions of the Church of England when he studied at the Royal School of Church Music in London. Adam Parker of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20160109\/PC1201\/160109473\/1002\/st-matthew-x2019-s-organist-doug-ludlum-looks-back-at-35-years\"><em>The Post and Courier<\/em><\/a> pens a tribute to Ludlum who says, \u201cI\u2019ve had a very fortunate life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 35 years as Organist and Director of Music at the historic St. Matthews Lutheran Church in Charleston, S.C., W. Douglas Ludlum is stepping down. The 73-year-old stalwart graduated Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","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=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}