{"id":9405,"date":"2021-06-04T16:58:20","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T16:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/07\/15\/from-ballroom-to-river-barge-2\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:41:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:41:20","slug":"from-ballroom-to-river-barge-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/from-ballroom-to-river-barge-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From ballroom to river barge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, you may not see the connection between organizing a barge shipment on the White Nile River in South Sudan and planning a glitzy fundraiser in Washington, D.C. But the same heart and the same talents fueled both jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I look back, it all falls into place and makes sense,\u201d says <strong>Jessie Cochran \u201905<\/strong>. She might be \u201cdoing it at a warehouse or an airport, instead of a ballroom, but it\u2019s the same sort of skills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/furman-magazine\/2021-spring\/stories\/from-ballroom-to-river-barge\/\">the spring issue of Furman magazine<\/a><\/strong> about her four years\u00a0in South Sudan with the United Nations World Food Programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first glance, you may not see the connection between organizing a barge shipment on the White Nile River in South Sudan and planning a glitzy fundraiser in Washington, D.C. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405","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=9405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}