{"id":7181,"date":"2018-01-19T15:20:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T20:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/01\/19\/a-final-bus-trip-home\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:43:52","slug":"a-final-bus-trip-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-final-bus-trip-home\/","title":{"rendered":"A final bus trip home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has been mourning the death of senior Jackson Roberts, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Greenville Friday, Jan. 12. Jackson was a student coach with the Paladin lacrosse team, and his teammates have made a point of honoring him in every way possible. On Friday, Jan. 19, the team traveled to Memphis, Tenn., Jackson\u2019s hometown, for the funeral. At the family\u2019s request, they brought his cremated remains with them, making one last bus trip with their former teammate. <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/geoff-calkins\/2018\/01\/19\/jackson-roberts-former-mus-lacrosse-star-killed-motorcycle-accident-gets-one-last-bus-trip-home\/1046159001\/\">The Commercial Appeal<\/a><\/em> <\/strong>in Memphis published a story about Jackson Roberts and what he had meant to the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman has been mourning the death of senior Jackson Roberts, who was killed in a motorcycle accident in Greenville Friday, Jan. 12. Jackson was a student coach with the Paladin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181","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=7181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}