{"id":9183,"date":"2021-02-12T23:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T23:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/02\/12\/furman-students-surprise-special-needs-adults-with-bags-full-of-love\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:38:21","slug":"furman-students-surprise-special-needs-adults-with-bags-full-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-students-surprise-special-needs-adults-with-bags-full-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman students surprise special needs adults with bags full of love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_49075\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49075\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49075 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Heller_ServiceCorps_Valentines-1.jpg\" alt=\"masked students preparing gift bags\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 400px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 400\/266;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-49075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Student members of the Heller Service Corps stuff goodie bags for members of the special adult community.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the last 15 years, Heller Service Corps at Furman University has hosted its Valentine&#8217;s Day Dance for Exceptional Adults that traditionally draws 300 people, including Furman students and organizing staff. To keep everyone safe this year while the COVID-19 vaccine is rolling out, the event is postponed, but Heller Service Corps is committed to keeping things festive. The group prepared 150 gift bags full of Valentine&#8217;s treats for special needs adults who are associated with Thrive Upstate. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wspa.com\/news\/furman-students-surprise-special-needs-adults-with-bags-full-of-love-ahead-of-valentines-day\/\">WSPA News 7<\/a><\/strong> was there when the gifts arrived and spoke to Furman student Addison Smith &#8217;22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the last 15 years, Heller Service Corps at Furman University has hosted its Valentine&#8217;s Day Dance for Exceptional Adults that traditionally draws 300 people, including Furman students and organizing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,6,27,1],"tags":[255,685,686,231],"class_list":["post-9183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative","category-in-the-news","category-student-life","category-uncategorized","tag-covid-19","tag-special-needs-community","tag-thrive-upstate","tag-valentines-day"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183","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=9183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}