{"id":43867,"date":"2026-10-22T10:46:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=43867"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:46:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T14:46:05","slug":"greenville-glows-purple-for-furmans-bicentennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenville-glows-purple-for-furmans-bicentennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville Glows Purple for Furman\u2019s Bicentennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville is glowing purple in honor of Furman University\u2019s 200th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>From now through Sunday, the area around Liberty Bridge at Falls Park and the County Administration Building will be illuminated in Furman purple, beginning at dusk each night.<\/p>\n<p>Paladins in town for Homecoming can stop by throughout the weekend to take photos and celebrate Furman\u2019s bicentennial against a purple-hued Greenville backdrop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are deeply grateful for Furman\u2019s longstanding partnership with the City of Greenville and Greenville County, and we\u2019re honored that both are helping celebrate our bicentennial and Homecoming by illuminating the area around Liberty Bridge at Falls Park and the County Administration Building in purple,\u201d said Liz Seman, Furman&#8217;s chief of staff and vice president for community and government relations. \u201cThis gesture holds special meaning because Furman\u2019s story is woven into the very landscape of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The purple lights celebrate 200 years of Furman history and the university\u2019s enduring connections to Greenville and Greenville County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville and Furman University have been entwined for more than 150 years and the campus was in downtown Greenville until 1958. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":43875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3404,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-bicentennial","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43867"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43877,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43867\/revisions\/43877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}