{"id":831,"date":"2012-10-05T19:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T23:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/05\/2012-furman-alum-pulling-some-strings\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:33:58","slug":"2012-furman-alum-pulling-some-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012-furman-alum-pulling-some-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"2012 Furman alum making beautiful music"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4318\" style=\"width: 216px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/seth-gilliard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4318 lazyload\" title=\"seth-gilliard\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/seth-gilliard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"194\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 206px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 206\/194;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seth Gilliard<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Seth Gilliard, who graduated from Furman in May with a degree in music, definitely knows how to pull some strings, or rather, play them.\u00a0 According to ABC News, the Charleston, S.C., violinist is taking the music scene by storm with his classical renditions of mainstream pop songs. \u00a0Gilliard\u2019s YouTube page currently has 18 covers he&#8217;s performed and professionally recorded by artists such as Justin Bieber, Usher and Alicia Keys.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/gma.yahoo.com\/blogs\/abc-blogs\/south-carolina-violinist-makes-pop-music-sound-pretty-183005573--abc-news-celebrities.html\">Watch the video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seth Gilliard, who graduated from Furman in May with a degree in music, definitely knows how to pull some strings, or rather, play them. According to ABC News, the Charleston, S.C., violinist is taking the music scene by storm with his classical renditions of mainstream pop songs. Gilliard\u2019s YouTube page currently has 18 covers he&#8217;s performed and professionally recorded by artists such as Justin Bieber, Usher and Alicia Keys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831","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=831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}