{"id":1331,"date":"2010-09-21T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1331"},"modified":"2010-09-21T06:50:49","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T10:50:49","slug":"why-i-love-div-iii-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/09\/21\/why-i-love-div-iii-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I Love Div. III Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1334\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1334\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/09\/owu-47091.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1334\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/09\/owu-47091.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/09\/owu-47091.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/09\/owu-47091-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chuck Barber (OWU &#039;55) and his son Chip (Ashland &#039;81)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">These two gentlemen, Chuck Barber and his son Chip, stopped by our tailgate before the OWU football game. \u00a0They are both big Ohio Wesleyan fans. \u00a0They were FOR OWU, but not against Wabash.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">We had a great talk. \u00a0Chuck wants nothing more than OWU football to be back where it was in his days and is working hard to help that happen. \u00a0Chip, even though he graduated from Ashland, agrees. \u00a0Chip is a frequent poster on D3football.com. \u00a0He was dying to meet &#8220;WallyWabash&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">There was no doubt in my mind that they loved OWU every bit as much as I do Wabash. There was also no doubt they believed in the concept of student-athlete and wouldn&#8217;t trade the good education for anything else.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Good folks who care deeply about the right things &#8211; what more could you ask for across the field?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These two gentlemen, Chuck Barber and his son Chip, stopped by our tailgate before the OWU football game. \u00a0They are both big Ohio Wesleyan fans. \u00a0They were FOR OWU, but not against [&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-1331","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\/1331","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=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}