{"id":3323,"date":"2026-03-18T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/?p=3323"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:04:24","slug":"what-got-us-here-wont-get-us-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/what-got-us-here-wont-get-us-there\/","title":{"rendered":"What Got Us Here Won&#8217;t Get Us There"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alumni Steve Lewis &#8217;91 and Brett Denton &#8217;93 share why Carolina Law&#8217;s rise to the top 20 is only the beginning, and why doubling the annual fund from $1.5 million to $3 million is the next essential step. Watch their message, then consider how your gift can help build what comes next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Alumni Leadership 2026 UNC Law\" width=\"798\" height=\"449\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jomorlxZu74?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-container-1 wp-block-buttons\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-carolina-blue-background-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/give.unc.edu\/donate?p=SLAW \">Give Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumni Steve Lewis and Brett Denton make the case for doubling the annual fund, and why the moment to act is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3323"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3394,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3323\/revisions\/3394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magazine.law.unc.edu\/spring-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}