{"id":4585,"date":"2016-06-10T20:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-11T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/10\/laughs-and-equality\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:09:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:09:07","slug":"laughs-and-equality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/laughs-and-equality\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughs and Equality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran of 30 years of stand-up comedy, Furman alum Jim David \u201976 returns to his hometown of Asheville, N.C., June 23 for a one-night only show, &#8220;Stand Up for Equality (and Show Tunes!).&#8221; David has enjoyed a productive career since graduating from Furman with a degree in drama, having appeared on national television programs like &#8220;The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,&#8221; ABC\u2019s &#8220;The View,&#8221; and Comedy Central\u2019s &#8220;Tough Crowd With Colin Quinn.&#8221; The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/life\/2016\/06\/10\/comedian-jim-david-comes-home-asheville-1-night-only\/85592526\/\">Citizen-Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> caught up with David before his upcoming show at the Asheville Community Theatre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A veteran of 30 years of stand-up comedy, Furman alum Jim David \u201976 returns to his hometown of Asheville, N.C., June 23 for a one-night only show, &#8220;Stand Up for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-theatre-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585","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=4585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}