{"id":13,"date":"2005-10-24T11:20:16","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T11:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2005\/10\/24\/wabash-pep-band-features-brake-drum\/"},"modified":"2005-10-24T11:20:16","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T11:20:16","slug":"wabash-pep-band-features-brake-drum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2005\/10\/24\/wabash-pep-band-features-brake-drum\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Pep Band Features Brake Drum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Brake%20drum.jpg\" height=\"212\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\" width=\"159\" \/>Someone once described a particular sound as &quot;music to my ears&quot;. &nbsp;For a vast majority of our Wabash football fans, that music on football days is brought to you by our small but talented Pep Band.<\/p>\n<p>The band was particularly good at the Witt game, playing a very high energy &quot;Old Wabash.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I have &nbsp;to confess, my favorite instrument of all in the Pep Band is the brake drum. &nbsp;How many bands do you know that feature the distinctive sound that can only come from a drum stick colliding at high speed with a brake drum? &nbsp;Not many, I assure you.<\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope, as the years go by, that the brake drum isn&#8217;t replaced in the band by it&#8217;s better performing but nowhere near as musical little brother, the disc brake caliper. &nbsp;That just wouldn&#8217;t be right&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once described a particular sound as &quot;music to my ears&quot;. &nbsp;For a vast majority of our Wabash football fans, that music on football days is brought to you by our small [&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-13","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\/13","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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}