{"id":45,"date":"2005-12-02T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2005\/12\/02\/its-been-35-years\/"},"modified":"2005-12-02T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T10:34:50","slug":"its-been-35-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2005\/12\/02\/its-been-35-years\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s Been 35 Years!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/big%20bash%20color.jpg\" \/>I&#8217;ve been updating the web pages and reworking the plans for the Big Bash of 2006 for most of the morning. &nbsp;In the process, I&#8217;ve poured over many photos from the Bash of 2004 and last year&#8217;s. &nbsp;The Big Bash is a lot of fun, let me tell you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">The 2006 Bash will be my class&#8217;s 35th reunion &#8211; just doesn&#8217;t seem possible. &nbsp;The long hair and madras pants have been replaced by no hair and relaxed fit, expando slacks. &nbsp;Our &quot;rose colored glasses&quot; have been replaced by bifocals. &nbsp;In 1971 nobody over 30 was to be trusted. &nbsp;In 2005 we&#8217;re worried Social Security can&#8217;t be trusted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">But it just doesn&#8217;t matter in the grand scheme of things. &nbsp;What matters is our impact on this world. &nbsp;Come back to the Bash to tell your stories and rekindle those life-long Wabash friendships.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><b>The Bash &#8211; June 2-4, 2006<\/b>. &nbsp;See you there&#8230;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been updating the web pages and reworking the plans for the Big Bash of 2006 for most of the morning. &nbsp;In the process, I&#8217;ve poured over many photos from the Bash [&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-45","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\/45","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=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}