{"id":4636,"date":"2016-07-13T15:32:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/14\/southern-living-lists-greenville-among-souths-best-college-towns\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:47:48","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:47:48","slug":"southern-living-lists-greenville-among-souths-best-college-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/southern-living-lists-greenville-among-souths-best-college-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Living Lists Greenville Among &#8220;South&#8217;s Best College Towns&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southernliving.com\/travel\/2016-best-college-towns\/downtown-greenville-south-carolina-image\">Southern Living<\/a><\/em><\/strong> magazine compiled its list of the \u201cSouth\u2019s Best College Towns,\u201d Furman\u2019s hometown, Greenville, was among the top 21 choices.\u00a0 According to the magazine, it \u201cselected some of our favorite small towns, some true hidden gems of the South. We looked for schools beloved by their fan bases and their alumni, and schools exploring truly exciting academics and research that promise to reach the wider world\u2026places in which the college is a driving force in the character of the town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Greenville is close to both the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean, the magazine called Greenville \u201ca paradise for college students who can\u2019t decide between the mountains and the beach. Bookworms looking for a break between study sessions will find an outdoor escape at Falls Park or the Paris Mountain State Park; with scenery so stunning, it\u2019s no wonder the students of Furman love their college, and their town, so much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Southern Living magazine compiled its list of the \u201cSouth\u2019s Best College Towns,\u201d Furman\u2019s hometown, Greenville, was among the top 21 choices.\u00a0 According to the magazine, it \u201cselected some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":16027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,3,35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-parent-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","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=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}