{"id":7939,"date":"2019-01-07T20:16:12","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/07\/pop-culture-phenom\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:45:15","slug":"pop-culture-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/pop-culture-phenom\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture phenom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alum Austin Watson \u201908, aka Xavier Woods, is one third of the WWE\u2019s wildly popular New Day with teammates Kofi Kingston and Big E. His route to the big time in professional wrestling has come through dogged determination, hard work and a passion for sports entertainment. <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/sports\/wrestling\/xavier-woods-new-day-have-become-pop-culture-phenoms-of\/article_3a9ca3f2-1029-11e9-b7a5-e7fef8668464.html\">The Post and Courier<\/a><\/strong><\/em> in Charleston reported on the Furman graduate and his impact on the WWE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alum Austin Watson \u201908, aka Xavier Woods, is one third of the WWE\u2019s wildly popular New Day with teammates Kofi Kingston and Big E. His route to the big time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":7940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,48,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-psychology","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939","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=7939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}