{"id":965,"date":"2012-12-14T16:20:56","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T21:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/12\/14\/building-bridges-to-college\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T21:21:58","slug":"building-bridges-to-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/building-bridges-to-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Building bridges to college"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela once called education the most powerful tool for world change. Furman\u2019s Bridges to a Brighter Future, an intensive, seven-year college access program for Greenville County students, is doing its best to promote the power of education.\u00a0 <em>The Greenville News<\/em> reported on the nationally recognized Bridges program, which has sent 95 percent of its graduates to college over the past 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela once called education the most powerful tool for world change. Furman\u2019s Bridges to a Brighter Future, an intensive, seven-year college access program for Greenville County students, is doing its best to promote the power of education.\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em> reported on the nationally recognized Bridges program, which has sent 95 percent of its graduates to college over the past 14 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-continuing-education","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}