{"id":6716,"date":"2017-06-08T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/06\/08\/the-benefits-of-heading-south-to-college\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:00:20","slug":"the-benefits-of-heading-south-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-benefits-of-heading-south-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Heading South to college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, as a resident of Edina, Minn., Mark Lerner often found himself \u201cexplaining, even defending,\u201d his son\u2019s choice to attend college in the South. But four years later, Miles Lerner graduated from Furman University with a degree in economics and, his father writes, \u201ca college experience as rich and rewarding as any parent could hope for.\u201d In a column for the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/current.mnsun.com\/2017\/06\/06\/column-concerning-college-studying-down-south-opens-gate-to-world\/\">Sun Current<\/a> <\/strong>in Eden Prairie, Minn., Mr. Lerner writes about his son\u2019s time at Furman, which included playing on the rugby team, and how the entire family developed a special appreciation for the Carolinas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four years ago, as a resident of Edina, Minn., Mark Lerner often found himself \u201cexplaining, even defending,\u201d his son\u2019s choice to attend college in the South. But four years later, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,46,6,35,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-economics","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716","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=6716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}