{"id":6930,"date":"2017-09-26T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/09\/27\/why-i-picked-furman\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:54:09","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:54:09","slug":"why-i-picked-furman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/why-i-picked-furman\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I picked Furman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall issue of <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/education\/best-colleges\/articles\/2017-09-26\/students-recent-alums-explain-their-college-choices\">U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Colleges,\u201d<\/a><\/em><\/strong> Furman alum Nathan Mathai &#8217;17 was among nine college graduates who explained why they chose to enroll at their particular schools.<\/p>\n<p>Mathai, who graduated in May with a degree in accounting, wrote about being intrigued by the \u201cstunning campus\u201d and the \u201cchance to explore my many interests, including politics, history, numbers and theater.\u201d The conclusion of the Plano, Texas native: \u201cGoing to Furman was absolutely the right decision for me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fall issue of U.S. News &amp; World Report\u2019s \u201cAmerica\u2019s Best Colleges,\u201d Furman alum Nathan Mathai &#8217;17 was among nine college graduates who explained why they chose to enroll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6931,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20,6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-business-and-accounting","category-in-the-news","category-the-furman-advantage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930","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=6930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}