{"id":8393,"date":"2019-09-16T18:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/09\/16\/furman-names-renovated-locker-room-in-honor-of-jackson-roberts\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:29:37","slug":"furman-names-renovated-locker-room-in-honor-of-jackson-roberts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-names-renovated-locker-room-in-honor-of-jackson-roberts\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman names renovated locker room in honor of Jackson Roberts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to hear us talk about Jackson in the past and that he&#8217;s no longer here with us. But he will always be here with us in spirit, and he will always be in this locker room,&#8221; said Lisa Roberts, mother of the late Jackson Roberts. The Furman Men&#8217;s Lacrosse player died in a motorcycle accident early last year. To honor the fallen teammate, Furman Men&#8217;s Lacrosse raised over $650,000 to renovate the team&#8217;s locker room, now named for Roberts. The funds will also contribute to a future turf field for the Paladins. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/furman-university-names-renovated-locker-room-to-honor-late-student-athlete-jackson-roberts\/29050229\">WYFF4<\/a> covered the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to hear us talk about Jackson in the past and that he&#8217;s no longer here with us. But he will always be here with us in spirit, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393","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=8393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}