{"id":642,"date":"2012-07-05T15:10:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T19:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/05\/bringing-basketball-to-the-salvation-army\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:20:49","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:20:49","slug":"bringing-basketball-to-the-salvation-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/bringing-basketball-to-the-salvation-army\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing basketball to the Salvation Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/brigid-morrisey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3536 lazyload\" title=\"brigid-morrisey\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/brigid-morrisey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"263\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 197px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 197\/263;\" \/><\/a>When Bridgid Morrisey visited the Salvation Army recently with the rest of her teammates from the Furman\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team, she noticed an area inside the building that once served as a basketball court. There were markings for the lanes, but there wasn\u2019t a basketball goal. Thanks to \u00a0Morrisey, that is no longer the case and the sound of bouncing basketballs is now part of daily life at the Salvation Army.\u00a0 Bart Wright, sports editor at <em>The Greenville News<\/em>, wrote about Morrisey\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/press\/brigid_morrisey.pdf\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Bridgid Morrisey visited the Salvation Army recently with the rest of her teammates from the Furman\u2019s women\u2019s basketball team, she noticed an area inside the building that once served as a basketball court. There were markings for the lanes, but there wasn\u2019t a basketball goal. Thanks to \u00a0Morrisey, that is no longer the case and the sound of bouncing basketballs is now part of daily life at the Salvation Army.\u00a0 Bart Wright, sports editor at\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>, wrote about Morrisey\u2019s efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","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\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}