{"id":1094,"date":"2010-04-23T14:53:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/04\/23\/heres-a-no-brainer-david-blix-and-the-standing-o\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:53:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:53:08","slug":"heres-a-no-brainer-david-blix-and-the-standing-o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/04\/23\/heres-a-no-brainer-david-blix-and-the-standing-o\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#039;s a No-brainer &#8211; David Blix and the Standing &quot;O&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/blix_MG_9891.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Late spring Chapel talks. &nbsp;Usually sparsely attended. &nbsp;Usually low energy. &nbsp;Usually left over speakers&#8230;guys like Tom Runge.<\/p>\n<p>But David Blix closed out Chapel Season this semester&#8230;and the crowd was there. &nbsp;David is a magnet&#8230;it runs in the Class of 1970. &nbsp;The Standing O? &nbsp;Of course!<\/p>\n<p>David&#8217;s talk was about&#8230;.no, you need to go listen to it. &nbsp;I am not about to give it away. &nbsp;But in the time or two when he got, very slightly choked up, I did as well. &nbsp;Because the talk dealt with&#8230;go see it. &nbsp;Click <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=8030\">here<\/a> for the story and video.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been one of those weeks&#8230;nothing more needs to be said. &nbsp;David made me smile and laugh&#8230;and find good.<\/p>\n<p>Glad he doesn&#8217;t charge &#8211; glad he&#8217;s one of us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late spring Chapel talks. &nbsp;Usually sparsely attended. &nbsp;Usually low energy. &nbsp;Usually left over speakers&#8230;guys like Tom Runge. But David Blix closed out Chapel Season this semester&#8230;and the crowd was there. &nbsp;David is [&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-1094","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\/1094","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=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}