{"id":8144,"date":"2019-04-11T15:43:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T15:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/relay-for-life-on-furman-mall-raises-more-than-40000-for-american-cancer-society\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:20:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:20:33","slug":"relay-for-life-on-furman-mall-raises-more-than-40000-for-american-cancer-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/relay-for-life-on-furman-mall-raises-more-than-40000-for-american-cancer-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Relay for Life raises more than $40,000 for American Cancer Society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 350\u00a0students, faculty, staff and community members showed their support for cancer patients during Friday&#8217;s\u00a0Relay for Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society that took place on the Furman Mall.\u00a0The participants raised more than $40,000 to support the American Cancer Society\u2019s research and programs for cancer patients.<\/p>\n<p>The Furman and Greenville communities gathered together for food, music and activities to join together in the fight against cancer. Student organizations hosted fundraisers, including a hamburger cookout, bake sales and donut-on-a-string competitions on the Mall. There was also a photo booth, inflatable jousting and face paint.<\/p>\n<p>During the Luminaria Ceremony, Sydney Beason &#8217;22 spoke about her experience with cancer. The event also featured a variety of student performers, including the Bell Tower Boys, Dintonation and Mystkle Pykle. Timothy Ramos, a comedic hypnotist from Alabama, also made an appearance at Relay for Life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 350\u00a0students, faculty, staff and community members showed their support for cancer patients during Friday&#8217;s\u00a0Relay for Life, a fundraising event for the American Cancer Society that took place on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-four-news-4th-story","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}