{"id":20911,"date":"2019-06-04T16:33:30","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=20911"},"modified":"2019-06-04T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:33:30","slug":"ring-story-lost-and-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/ring-story-lost-and-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring Story: Lost and Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ring Story: Lost and Found<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_half  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-2  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Wimberly_RingStory_1.png' alt='' title='Wimberly_RingStory_1' height=\"623\" width=\"655\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"flex_column av_one_half  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_one_half  el_before_av_textblock  column-top-margin\" style='border-radius:0px; '><div  class='avia-image-container  av-styling-    avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  avia-align-center '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"  ><div class='avia-image-container-inner'><div class='avia-image-overlay-wrap'><img class='avia_image' src='https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Wimberly_RingStory_4-e1559232457994.jpg' alt='' title='Wimberly_RingStory_4' height=\"1813\" width=\"1810\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/BlogPosting\" itemprop=\"blogPost\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last September, Karen Wimberly\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\">\u201987, M \u201988*\u00a0<\/span>lost her class ring. She was on her way to Clemson to watch the Texas A&amp;M football game with her daughter Katie Wimberly \u201919 when she stopped at the rest\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">area on I-385. She remembers the north side restrooms were closed\u00a0<\/span>for cleaning, so she used the ones on the south side. When she got back in the car and began driving again, she noticed her ring was gone. It was a sinking feeling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cI turned around as soon as I could and went back to the rest area, but I did not see it anywhere,\u201d Wimberly said. \u201cI was heartbroken. I cried nearly all the way to Clemson.\u201d As soon as she got to her daughter\u2019s apartment, Wimberly posted about\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">the ring on Twitter. Within an hour, the post had been re-tweeted over 50 times and almost 200 by the end of the day, according to Wimberly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s3\">The following Sunday, she posted on Facebook and also called the alumni office\u00a0<\/span>to give her information in case someone turned up with the ring. Thankfully,\u00a0<span class=\"s3\">someone did. Frances Purswell-Montoya found Wimberly\u2019s ring on the ledge of the sink in the rest area. Her niece, Rita Ann Roberts, posted pictures of the found ring on Facebook, which was\u00a0<\/span>then seen by Wimberly\u2019s cousin who phoned Wimberly about the post. Wimberly and Roberts ended up trying to reach each other at the same time, since Roberts had also gotten in touch with the alumni office and was given Wimberly\u2019s contact information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s3\">Finally, the two met, and Wimberly\u00a0<\/span>was reunited with her ring: \u201cI was crying as I hugged her and she returned my ring to me. I truly believe getting my ring back was a gift from God.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='av-buildercomment   '><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":20908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[706,1825,2421,2790],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-20911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifelong-tigers","tag-clemson-ring","tag-lost-and-found","tag-ring-story","tag-summer-2019-lifelong-tigers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2019\/05\/Wimberly_RingStory_4-e1559232457994.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20911"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}