{"id":135,"date":"2006-04-18T12:50:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2006\/04\/18\/just-imagine\/"},"modified":"2006-04-18T12:50:40","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T12:50:40","slug":"just-imagine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2006\/04\/18\/just-imagine\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Imagine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/tree-down.jpg\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Just imagine. &nbsp;This white oak was knocked down during last week&#8217;s storm. Our guys estimate the tree is over 100 years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">The tree saw <b>President Kane<\/b>, our fifth president. &nbsp;It likely observed a couple of young students, <b>Byron Trippet &#8217;30<\/b> and <b>Frank Sparks &#8217;56<\/b> walk across campus&#8230;and maybe skip class to sit beside it&#8217;s trunk thinking of the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">It stood stately as it watched the Fine Arts Center grown in stages right across the street. &nbsp;It has also seen the great advances under <b>President Andy Ford H&#8217;03<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Can you imagine the article <b>Steve Charles<\/b>, the Wabash Magazine editor, could write it he could interview this oak?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">I must have spring fever&#8230;better get back to work on Big Bash 2006.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just imagine. &nbsp;This white oak was knocked down during last week&#8217;s storm. Our guys estimate the tree is over 100 years old. The tree saw President Kane, our fifth president. &nbsp;It likely [&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-135","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\/135","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=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}