{"id":681,"date":"2012-08-06T15:18:10","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/06\/wright-throws-big-party-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:47:23","slug":"wright-throws-big-party-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wright-throws-big-party-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Wright throws major party in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Wright, a 2000 Furman graduate, is a former MIT Ph.D. candidate in chemistry who dropped out to become a professional opera singer.\u00a0 He also founded the Opus Affair in Boston, a networking group of 3,000 young professionals involved in the arts. The organization recently held a Gatsby-era party that was featured in the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright graduated from Furman with a degree in chemistry, but also studied voice and trombone at the university in addition to being a member of the Furman Singers and Furman Opera Theater.\u00a0 He earned a master\u2019s degree from MIT with a special interest in pharmaceutical research before becoming an opera singer and Special Programs Coordinator at the Museum of Science in Boston.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.boston.com\/2012-08-01\/style\/32958587_1_arts-organizations-young-professionals-gatsby-party\">Read the article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham Wright, a 2000 Furman graduate, is a former MIT Ph.D. candidate in chemistry who dropped out to become a professional opera singer.\u00a0 He also founded the Opus Affair in Boston, a networking group of 3,000 young professionals involved in the arts. The organization recently held a Gatsby-era party that was featured in the\u00a0<em>Boston Globe<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":682,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681","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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}