{"id":6959,"date":"2017-10-06T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/10\/06\/oct-6-1953-marks-a-special-furman-event\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:08:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:08:39","slug":"oct-6-1953-marks-a-special-furman-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/oct-6-1953-marks-a-special-furman-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 6, 1953 was a special day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1947, Furman University trustees were confronted with a downtown campus swollen by veterans\u2019 enrollment, a physical plant with maintenance deferred since the Great Depression, and serious transportation issues in the mile that separated its women\u2019s and men\u2019s campuses. On Oct. 6, 1953, Furman broke ground for a new campus located off Duncan Chapel Road. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/greenville-roots\/2017\/10\/06\/furman-university\/729703001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong> remembered Furman\u2019s move to its new campus on the 64<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the groundbreaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1947, Furman University trustees were confronted with a downtown campus swollen by veterans\u2019 enrollment, a physical plant with maintenance deferred since the Great Depression, and serious transportation issues in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6960,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","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=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}