{"id":1115,"date":"2010-06-03T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2010\/06\/03\/and-the-stories-begin\/"},"modified":"2010-06-03T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T18:04:32","slug":"and-the-stories-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/06\/03\/and-the-stories-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Stories Begin&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks before the Big Bash are a challenging time&#8230;I won&#8217;t kid you. &nbsp;We deal with a lot of&#8230;well&#8230;let&#8217;s call it reunion &quot;craziness&quot; and leave it at that. &nbsp;At the same time, we&#8217;re trying to get everything ready so that the Big Bash is a fun one for everyone who attends.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, on my way home tonight I decided to swing by the Quality Inn where the Class of 1960 was holding their informal &quot;warm up&quot; before the reunion begins tomorrow. &nbsp;In many ways, I felt like I was invading their space and their time. &nbsp;But I have to admit, it was good for the Grunge&#8217;s soul!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/name tags (1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The smiles were wide and genuine and the stories were already reaching &quot;history-making&quot;&#8230;and they had just started. &nbsp;The thought that good friends never go out of style hit me time and time again. &nbsp;And the stories! &nbsp;And the smiles!<\/p>\n<p>Dick Kite, reunion chair (red shirt above), had some great name tags. &nbsp;They included names&#8230;and yearbook pictures. &nbsp;Talk about an ice breaker!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/name tags.jpg\" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>It all starts tomorrow!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last couple of weeks before the Big Bash are a challenging time&#8230;I won&#8217;t kid you. &nbsp;We deal with a lot of&#8230;well&#8230;let&#8217;s call it reunion &quot;craziness&quot; and leave it at that. &nbsp;At [&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-1115","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\/1115","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=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}