{"id":9603,"date":"2021-10-26T19:42:32","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T19:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/26\/a-sweet-season-for-south-carolina-born-needtobreathe\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:44:13","slug":"a-sweet-season-for-south-carolina-born-needtobreathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/a-sweet-season-for-south-carolina-born-needtobreathe\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018sweet season\u2019 for South Carolina-born Needtobreathe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus Bear Rinehart &#8217;03, founding member and lead singer for Christian rock band Needtobreathe, was featured in an article appearing the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/things-to-do\/a-sweet-season-for-south-carolina-born-needtobreathe\/M4CZLPUIARFGJGI4LXRDGA6H74\/\">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a><\/strong>. The former Paladin wide receiver and political science graduate is looking forward to touring again and sharing music from two projects the band churned out during the COVID-19 concert shutdown. Band member Seth Bolt goes on record about the challenges of the pandemic and the strain of losing Bear&#8217;s brother, Bo, who left the band.<\/p>\n<p>Bolt said Bear had no problem picking up the songwriting slack, hammering out &#8220;essentially a song a day&#8221; during the lead up to the recording session for \u201cInto The Mystery,\u201d which dropped in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University alumnus Bear Rinehart &#8217;03, founding member and lead singer for Christian rock band Needtobreathe, was featured in an article appearing the The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The former Paladin wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,24,6,32,1],"tags":[1137,1088,1138,255,1139],"class_list":["post-9603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-uncategorized","tag-alternative-christian-rock","tag-band","tag-christian-rock","tag-covid-19","tag-singer-songwriter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603","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=9603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}