{"id":1649,"date":"2010-12-15T10:06:32","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T15:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1649"},"modified":"2010-12-15T10:06:32","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T15:06:32","slug":"midnight-munch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2010\/12\/15\/midnight-munch\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Munch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You already know&#8230;I love this event. \u00a0Driving home from Chicago yesterday I thought of 57 different reasons that I didn&#8217;t need to go <em>this time<\/em>. \u00a0I was tired. \u00a0It was cold. \u00a0There would be plenty of people there.<\/p>\n<p>All of the whinny stuff. <em>(Correction: \u00a0Mr. Avery Nickelson was nice enough to tell me that horses whinny but I was whiney.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At 9:15 PM (real time was 2115), I jumped in the shower and headed out the door. \u00a0I wanted to get there early enough to share Line #3 with the regulars.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1651\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1651\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/12\/the-reason-6699.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1651\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/12\/the-reason-6699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/12\/the-reason-6699.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2010\/12\/the-reason-6699-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1651\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Makes It All Worthwhile...and then some.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a small example of why this is so much fun. \u00a0That&#8217;s Lexie Hoerl, professor of Political Science, talking with a student. \u00a0You can see right away they <strong>share<\/strong> the Wabash experience. \u00a0She won&#8217;t change one bit her grading and the student, if he is in one of her courses, wouldn&#8217;t want that to happen. \u00a0That&#8217;s not the purpose. \u00a0The night really is about the Wabash community coming together and wishing the guys the best of luck.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1652\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/12\/Pat-White-W1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1652\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2010\/12\/Pat-White-W1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The perfect &quot;flip&quot;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pat White loves the evening as well. \u00a0He&#8217;s the Presidential pancake maker as I have said before. \u00a0Last night, the challenge was to make a &#8220;W&#8221; pancake and then flip it perfectly for the completed &#8220;W&#8221;. \u00a0After a practice or two, and a little wrist action coaching by Ethan Hollander (Professor of Political Science), Pat landed a 3 1\/2 double twist, flip something-or-other perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>For a few more photos, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2677\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You already know&#8230;I love this event. \u00a0Driving home from Chicago yesterday I thought of 57 different reasons that I didn&#8217;t need to go this time. \u00a0I was tired. \u00a0It was cold. \u00a0There [&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-1649","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\/1649","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=1649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}