{"id":1035,"date":"2010-01-24T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/01\/24\/oberlins-isaac-hayes-george-abram\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T19:39:56","slug":"oberlins-isaac-hayes-george-abram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/01\/24\/oberlins-isaac-hayes-george-abram\/","title":{"rendered":"Oberlin&#039;s Isaac Hayes &#8211; George Abram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/george a.jpg\" \/>I attended the Wabash &#8211; Oberlin basketball game this past weekend, took a few photos, and also had a chance to meet George Abram, the voice of Oberlin football and basketball. &nbsp;George has that smooth, deep Isaac Hayes voice that gets the Oberlin faithful fired up when he introduces the &quot;Y..E..O..M..E..N!!!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So, you may ask, what has this to do with Wabash. &nbsp;Nothing, really. &nbsp;But then again&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>George is retired. &nbsp;He didn&#8217;t work at Oberlin College. &nbsp;He does what he does because he&#8217;s a fan of Oberlin. &nbsp;H&#8217;s a local resident who likes what Oberlin does for young people. &nbsp; Wabash has many folks like this as well &#8211; and they make a difference every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Community support is key for our small liberal arts colleges. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Wabash &#8211; Oberlin basketball game this past weekend, took a few photos, and also had a chance to meet George Abram, the voice of Oberlin football and basketball. &nbsp;George [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}