{"id":1973,"date":"2011-02-22T06:52:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2011-02-22T06:52:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T11:52:03","slug":"more-thoughts-on-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2011\/02\/22\/more-thoughts-on-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"More Thoughts on Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1974\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1974\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/mac-8693.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1974\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/mac-8693.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/mac-8693.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2011\/02\/mac-8693-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1974\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Coach Mac Petty H&#039;82<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Official Stuff. \u00a0February 19, 2011. \u00a0Wabash vs. Oberlin. \u00a0Tipoff at 1:00 PM. \u00a0Senior Day.<\/p>\n<p>The seniors were all introduced. \u00a0A fine group of young men. \u00a0They would start. \u00a0It would be Wabash by 12, 16 &#8211; 4, when some came out of the game. \u00a0They all played hard&#8230;good, solid basketball.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t about the game. \u00a0You see, they have &#8220;Unfinished Business&#8221;. \u00a0This was just another step towards a lot more basketball.<\/p>\n<p>But it <strong>was<\/strong> about a legend.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1975\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1975\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/untitled.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1975\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2011\/02\/untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1975\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gloria Petty<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Student Body sang songs about Coach Petty. \u00a0They chanted &#8220;G-l-o-r-i-a&#8221;. \u00a0The standard &#8220;Give me a W&#8221; by Bob Rogers became &#8220;Give me a M&#8230;an A&#8230;a C&#8230;&#8221; at the end of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Yes we played basketball and yes we beat an up and coming Oberlin team. \u00a0But the day belonged to Mac and Gloria Petty and their family. \u00a0Their extended family. \u00a0Read the entire Wabash Community.<\/p>\n<p>Mac spoke for a little over 5 minutes. \u00a0But he said it all. \u00a0Not a dry eye in the house. \u00a0But be careful, we don&#8217;t want that <strong><em>&#8220;Mac Petty Floor&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> to be wet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Official Stuff. \u00a0February 19, 2011. \u00a0Wabash vs. Oberlin. \u00a0Tipoff at 1:00 PM. \u00a0Senior Day. The seniors were all introduced. \u00a0A fine group of young men. \u00a0They would start. \u00a0It would be [&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-1973","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\/1973","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=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}