{"id":7604,"date":"2018-08-07T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/08\/07\/a-man-of-courage-and-honor\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:51:43","slug":"a-man-of-courage-and-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-man-of-courage-and-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"A man of courage and honor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton praised Furman alum Richard W. Riley on Monday as a man of courage who displayed great respect for others and who &#8220;kept score in the right way.&#8221; Clinton was the keynote speaker for the official unveiling of a collection of Riley&#8217;s political papers at a University of South Carolina library. Riley, the former Governor of South Carolina and former U.S. Secretary of Education under President Clinton, has been a friend of Clinton\u2019s since the two men were both elected governor in 1978.\u00a0 Read more in <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/south-carolina\/2018\/08\/06\/dick-riley-calls-commitment-quality-public-schools-sc\/901263002\/\">The Greenville News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Bill Clinton praised Furman alum Richard W. Riley on Monday as a man of courage who displayed great respect for others and who &#8220;kept score in the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7605,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7604","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\/7604","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=7604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}