{"id":6810,"date":"2017-08-08T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/08\/16\/yes-its-that-time-of-year-again\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:07:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:07:06","slug":"yes-its-that-time-of-year-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/yes-its-that-time-of-year-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u2019s 2017-18 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 22 when students attend their first day of classes.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 720 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 18, while the rest of the university\u2019s 2,700 students will begin arriving on Sunday, Aug. 20.<\/p>\n<p>Furman will hold its opening convocation Thursday, Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. in McAlister Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>The fall term ends Dec. 5, while spring term begins Jan. 8 and ends Apr. 24.\u00a0 Commencement will be held Saturday, May 5.\u00a0 The May Experience term will run May 9-30.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Furman&#8217;s Office of News and Media Relations at 864-294-3107.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University\u2019s 2017-18 academic year will officially get underway Tuesday, Aug. 22 when students attend their first day of classes. Approximately 720 freshmen will report to campus Friday, Aug. 18, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-parent-news","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810","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=6810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}