{"id":389,"date":"2007-06-24T12:42:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T12:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/06\/24\/you-can-open-a-door-or-finish-the-walkway\/"},"modified":"2007-06-24T12:42:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T12:42:07","slug":"you-can-open-a-door-or-finish-the-walkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/06\/24\/you-can-open-a-door-or-finish-the-walkway\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Open a Door&#8230;or Finish the Walkway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/brick-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>This picture is all about Wabash. One of our pathways lacks a single brick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">It&#8217;s one of the many brick pathways on campus. There are two approaches to this very slight imperfection. One is to say that the path is at least 99% complete and functions just fine the way it is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">The other approach is to say, simply, that one more brick will make the pathway complete. Useable. Safe. Let&#8217;s go find another brick. Let&#8217;s go do what it takes to make the pathway as much of a safe and unimpeded journey as it is a functional travel route. One more brick&#8230;that&#8217;s all it takes. Let&#8217;s go get another brick. That&#8217;s the Wabash way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Please, as the fiscal year draws to a close, help us make sure we can get that brick. That extra microscope. Fund that immersion trip. Grant that scholarship. Open that door for a Wabash man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">Wabash men helping Wabash men &#8211; with the journey and with the destination. Why? Because that&#8217;s in our DNA as Wabash guys&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">To make a gift on-line, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/alumni\/egift\" title=\"\">here<\/a>.<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">For you regular readers, please do me a favor<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family: 'Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'\">. Click on your class honor roll <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/alumni\/honorroll\">(here<\/a>) and check for all your friends. If they are on there, great. If not, call one or two of them. Ask them to join you. One or two&#8230;for your Alma Mater.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture is all about Wabash. One of our pathways lacks a single brick. It&#8217;s one of the many brick pathways on campus. There are two approaches to this very slight imperfection. [&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-389","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\/389","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=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}