{"id":4596,"date":"2016-06-14T15:18:20","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T19:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/06\/14\/a-portrait-of-the-artist\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:08:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:08:08","slug":"a-portrait-of-the-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-portrait-of-the-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"Portrait of the Artist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Bertling \u201996 grew up in Spartanburg with an affinity for art and a curiosity toward the divine, but it wasn\u2019t until his college years in Furman\u2019s art department and, later, his experiences at seminary, that his faith took form. Today, from his studio in Taylor\u2019s Mill, Bertling quotes Bono and Robert Frost in the same breath, breaking out into phrases of pure poetry. But it\u2019s his determination to use art to call people\u2019s attention to what really matters, that ultimately inspires. Read more about Bertling\u2019s journey as an artist in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/towncarolina.com\/article\/course-of-nature\/\">Town<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Bertling \u201996 grew up in Spartanburg with an affinity for art and a curiosity toward the divine, but it wasn\u2019t until his college years in Furman\u2019s art department and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":4597,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-art","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}