{"id":42866,"date":"2026-08-11T16:40:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42866"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:42:41","slug":"furman-universitys-rose-garden-place-of-peace-take-the-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-universitys-rose-garden-place-of-peace-take-the-spotlight\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman University&#8217;s Rose Garden, Place of Peace take the spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FOX Carolina&#8217;s &#8220;Access Carolina&#8221; morning show featured Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/08\/11\/explore-furman-universitys-hidden-garden-gem\/\">Janie Earle Furman Rose Garden<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/video\/2026\/08\/11\/story-behind-furman-universitys-place-peace\/\">Place of Peace<\/a> as part of its Back to School Week coverage. Furman&#8217;s Joey Davis, Superintendent of Grounds, Horticulture and Sports Turf, and Brent Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs, spoke to FOX Carolina&#8217;s Logan Hoffman about two of Furman&#8217;s most beloved spaces.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_42871\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42871\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42871 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a pink patterned dress speaks with a white man wearing a suit and tie outside a Japanese building. Place of Peace\" width=\"1200\" height=\"685\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200-768x438.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200-1024x585.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200-150x86.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2026\/08\/place-of-peace-with-Brent-Nelsen-Access-Carolina-1200-512x292.jpg 512w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200\/685;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-42871\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FOX Carolina&#8217;s Logan Hoffman (left) speaks with Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen outside the Place of Peace on the Furman University campus. Photo: FOX Carolina<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Joey Davis and Brent Nelsen give FOX Carolina&#8217;s Logan Hoffman tours of two of the university&#8217;s most cherished spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":42868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866","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=42866"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42875,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42866\/revisions\/42875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}