{"id":8740,"date":"2020-04-14T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/20\/greenwood-gavel\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:32:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:32:49","slug":"greenwood-gavel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/greenwood-gavel\/","title":{"rendered":"Family heirloom links past, childhood friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Furman University alumni Keith Jameson Richard &#8217;90 and Travis Moore &#8217;90 have been friends since childhood. Both from Greenwood, South Carolina, Richard is a New York-based tenor who regularly performs at the Metropolitan Opera, and Moore is Probate Judge of Greenwood County. The 760 miles between them doesn&#8217;t get in the way of their friendship. Richard&#8217;s parents came across a nearly 100-year-old family heirloom that Richard presented to Moore. Read the full story in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indexjournal.com\/news\/probate-judge-gavel-from-the-past-is-shared-connection-among-friends\/article_a9eecdb8-5315-5d91-83fd-fa7f0f72f42b.html\">Index-Journal<\/a><\/strong>. The story also appeared in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/entertainment\/music-news-reviews\/article242129966.html\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/strong>, and<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/south-carolina\/articles\/2020-04-20\/judges-decades-old-gavel-becomes-friends-shared-connection\">U.S. News &amp; World Report<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fellow Furman University alumni Keith Jameson Richard &#8217;90 and Travis Moore &#8217;90 have been friends since childhood. Both from Greenwood, South Carolina, Richard is a New York-based tenor who regularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,39,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740","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=8740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}