{"id":7049,"date":"2017-11-14T15:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T20:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/11\/14\/a-weekend-well-spent\/"},"modified":"2024-07-23T14:05:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T18:05:20","slug":"a-weekend-well-spent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-weekend-well-spent\/","title":{"rendered":"A weekend well spent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman welcomed more than 600 guests to campus Nov. 10\u201312 for Family Weekend 2017. Festivities kicked off with a pre-game tailgate featuring a band and BBQ, followed by a Furman football win over The Citadel.<\/p>\n<p>During the weekend, families were able to learn more about engaged learning opportunities available to students such as <a href=\"http:\/\/studyaway.furman.edu\/\">study away<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/internships\/\">internships<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/cothran-center-vocational-reflection\/\">vocational exploration<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/alumni\/career-advancement\/\">career development<\/a>. Other fun activities included trolley tours of campus, the chance to ride a seven-person circular bike, and the annual 5K Fun Run. The weekend concluded with the much anticipated 35th Annual Student Talent Showcase.<\/p>\n<h3>See the photos from Family Weekend 2017:<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Family Weekend 2017\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/30240240@N04\/albums\/72157666356401729\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/24545114008_65b54c23ca_z.jpg\" alt=\"Family Weekend 2017\" width=\"100%\" height=\"427\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 640px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 640\/427;\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman welcomed more than 600 guests to campus Nov. 10\u201312 for Family Weekend 2017. Festivities kicked off with a pre-game tailgate featuring a band and BBQ, followed by a Furman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":17577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,34,3,63,38,58,35,27,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","category-admission","category-alumni","category-career-services","category-greek-life","category-internships","category-parent-news","category-student-life","category-study-away-and-international-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049","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=7049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33141,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7049\/revisions\/33141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}