{"id":7196,"date":"2025-05-22T14:09:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/columbia-unveils-statue-honoring-dawn-staley\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T14:09:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T14:09:44","slug":"columbia-unveils-statue-honoring-dawn-staley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/columbia-unveils-statue-honoring-dawn-staley\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbia Unveils Statue Honoring Dawn Staley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"427\"><strong data-start=\"50\" data-end=\"77\">COLUMBIA, SC &ndash; April 30. &nbsp;<\/strong>The City of Columbia, in partnership with Statues for Equality and local community partners, unveiled a bronze statue honoring legendary basketball coach Dawn Staley at 4 p.m. on April 30. The statue stands proudly at the intersection of Senate and Lincoln Streets, beside the University of South Carolina&rsquo;s Pastides Alumni Center.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"636\">The tribute recognizes Staley&rsquo;s impact both on and off the court&mdash;as a Hall of Fame player, championship-winning coach of the USC women&rsquo;s basketball team, and influential advocate for equality and leadership.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"429\" data-end=\"636\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dawn-Staley-Statue-Ceremony_2025_630x350.jpg?resize=750%2C420\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"420\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"638\" data-end=\"667\"><em data-start=\"641\" data-end=\"667\">Photo by ESNTL Headshots<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, SC &ndash; April 30. &nbsp;The City of Columbia, in partnership with Statues for Equality and local community partners, unveiled a bronze statue honoring legendary basketball coach Dawn Staley at 4 p.m. on April 30. The statue stands proudly at the intersection of Senate and Lincoln Streets, beside the University<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/22\/columbia-unveils-statue-honoring-dawn-staley\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,52],"tags":[494],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-7196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-news","category-sports","tag-honors-and-awards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Dawn-Staley-Statue_2025_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}