{"id":9512,"date":"2021-08-30T16:43:28","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/08\/30\/the-secrets-out-former-clemson-furman-football-players-share-why-theyve-made-the-upstate-home\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:42:50","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:42:50","slug":"the-secrets-out-former-clemson-furman-football-players-share-why-theyve-made-the-upstate-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-secrets-out-former-clemson-furman-football-players-share-why-theyve-made-the-upstate-home\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The secret\u2019s out\u2019: Former Clemson, Furman football players share why they\u2019ve made the Upstate home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Spruill of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/sports\/the-secrets-out-former-clemson-furman-football-players-share-why-theyve-made-greenville-sc-home\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a><\/strong> reaches out to former Clemson and Furman University football players to understand lessons learned from the game and why they call the Upstate home. On the Furman side, Spruill speaks to Paul Siffri, tight end (1988-1991), Beach Foster, fullback\/strong safety (1974-1977), and Chad O\u2019Rear, running back (1988-1989), who came back to Greenville in 2018 after living in Athens, Georgia, 26 years. \u201cThe difference now is that when I was growing up, it was unusual to find someone who was not from here. Now, it\u2019s rare to find someone who <em>is<\/em> from here. And yet, the area has grown well and kept its identity,&#8221; O&#8217;Rear said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Spruill of Greenville Journal reaches out to former Clemson and Furman University football players to understand lessons learned from the game and why they call the Upstate home. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,24,6,35,1],"tags":[1012,1013],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-uncategorized","tag-furman-football","tag-upstate-south-carolina"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","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=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}