{"id":4580,"date":"2016-06-08T20:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T00:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/08\/once-homeless-now-headed-to-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:09:21","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:09:21","slug":"once-homeless-now-headed-to-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/once-homeless-now-headed-to-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Homeless, Now Headed to Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Khendra Witt was\u00a0homeless for a while during her freshman year in high school, she didn\u2019t allow those circumstances to hold her back.\u00a0 She graduated from Mauldin High School this spring as the senior class co-president and the recipient of the 2016 Service Above Self Scholarship.\u00a0 She will be also be attending Furman this fall with two prestigious\u00a0university scholarships\u2014the Bell Tower Scholarship and the Dreamer Scholarship.\u00a0 \u201cI look forward to doing amazing things at Furman, with all of the service opportunities, and to give back to Greenville,\u201d she said.\u00a0 <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/life\/2016\/05\/31\/adversity-propels-mauldin-student-to-success\/84967132\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> reported on Witt\u2019s journey thus far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though Khendra Witt was\u00a0homeless for a while during her freshman year in high school, she didn\u2019t allow those circumstances to hold her back.\u00a0 She graduated from Mauldin High School [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4580","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\/4580","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=4580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}