{"id":1797,"date":"2011-01-27T07:07:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2011-01-27T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T12:07:08","slug":"dress-for-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/01\/27\/dress-for-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Dress For Success !?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/01\/snow-shorts_MG_6652.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1798\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/01\/snow-shorts_MG_6652.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/snow-shorts_MG_6652.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/01\/snow-shorts_MG_6652-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Took this one last week (Thursday) during the snow storm. \u00a0I had decided to make this some kind of wardrobe post&#8230;but then it hit me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the guy who had the best of all worlds. \u00a0For every work day, I would go to the closet and pick a suit to wear for the day. \u00a0The suits were all the same. \u00a0They were the same color. \u00a0They were all green. \u00a0We called them &#8220;bags&#8221;. \u00a0Fire resistant. \u00a086 or so pockets. \u00a0They held everything. \u00a0The only thing you had to do, before you ever wore one, was to cut the knife pocket off. \u00a0Only the best pilots could go sans knife pocket. \u00a0The best work clothes ever.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This photo is really about one of the key reasons to go to an all male institution. \u00a0You can wear what you want. \u00a0When you want. \u00a0Shorts for January 20th? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0But remember your head gear &#8217;cause it&#8217;s cold and snowing.<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note though, this is about the kind of college we are. \u00a0This is a place where, as a student, you can be Y-O-U. \u00a0You don&#8217;t need to pretend anything. \u00a0Linebacker and theater major? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0Chem major and president of the bass fishing club? \u00a0Sure. \u00a0Great faculty member and ultimate frisbee geek? \u00a0Sure.<\/p>\n<p>Be you. \u00a0(Maybe I&#8217;ll try to be ME tomorrow and wear a &#8220;bag&#8221; to work?)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took this one last week (Thursday) during the snow storm. \u00a0I had decided to make this some kind of wardrobe post&#8230;but then it hit me. I&#8217;m the guy who had the best [&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-1797","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\/1797","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=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}