{"id":610,"date":"2016-03-23T18:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/03\/23\/an-incoming-freshman-perseveres\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:17:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:17:17","slug":"an-incoming-freshman-perseveres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/an-incoming-freshman-perseveres\/","title":{"rendered":"An incoming freshman perseveres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3417\" style=\"width: 309px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/julia-stathopoulos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3417 lazyload\" title=\"julia-stathopoulos\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/julia-stathopoulos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"301\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 299px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 299\/301;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Julia Stathopoulos&#8217;s family celebrates her graduation day. From left to right: her mother Regina, her sister Christina, Julia, her brother Nicholas, her father Harry and her brother John.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Julia Stathopoulos didn\u2019t let a restrictive lung disease and an extended hospital stay keep her from attending her high school graduation at Providence High in Charlotte, N.C. She said she wanted to be part of things, and high school graduation happens only once. But Stathopoulos has always persevered despite a rare genetic condition, and she will continue her journey when she enrolls at Furman this fall.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2012\/06\/13\/3315677\/rare-disorder-doesnt-stop-providence.html\">Read more in the Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julia Stathopoulos didn\u2019t let a restrictive lung disease and an extended hospital stay keep her from attending her high school graduation at Providence High in Charlotte, N.C. She wanted to be part of things, and high school graduation happens only once. But Stathopoulos has always persevered despite a rare genetic condition, and she will continue her journey when she enrolls at Furman this fall. \u00a0The incoming freshman was profiled in the <em>Charlotte Observer<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-610","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\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}