{"id":8930,"date":"2020-08-27T12:45:32","date_gmt":"2020-08-27T12:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2020\/08\/27\/two-worlds-intertwine-opera-singer-and-harris-teeter-pharmacy-tech\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:34:38","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:34:38","slug":"two-worlds-intertwine-opera-singer-and-harris-teeter-pharmacy-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/two-worlds-intertwine-opera-singer-and-harris-teeter-pharmacy-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Two worlds intertwine, opera singer and pharmacy tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Wiggins, a 2014 Furman University voice graduate, said she had her &#8220;arias ready to go&#8221; when COVID-19 lockdowns began.\u00a0 The two-season chorus member of Opera Carolina was set to audition for a year-long program before the pandemic shuttered opera houses everywhere. Now, she is focused on her other job as a pharmacy tech at grocery store chain Harris Teeter outside of Charlotte, North Carolina. The long hours filling prescriptions haven&#8217;t squelched the mezzo-soprano&#8217;s motivation to improve her voice, or her desire to serve kids in her community. Read the story by Virginia Brown in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/entertainment\/arts-culture\/article244524542.html\">Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>See related story <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2020\/08\/04\/covid-19-and-the-gig-economy-three-opera-stars-press-onward\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Wiggins, a 2014 Furman University voice graduate, said she had her &#8220;arias ready to go&#8221; when COVID-19 lockdowns began.\u00a0 The two-season chorus member of Opera Carolina was set to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930","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=8930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}