{"id":485,"date":"2007-11-16T10:06:57","date_gmt":"2007-11-16T10:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/11\/16\/bill-placher-70-summa-cum-everything\/"},"modified":"2007-11-16T10:06:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-16T10:06:57","slug":"bill-placher-70-summa-cum-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/11\/16\/bill-placher-70-summa-cum-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Placher &#039;70 &#8211; Summa Cum EVERYTHING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/Placher.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Chapel Speaker was <strong>Bill Placher &#8217;70 &#8211; a Wabash legend.<\/strong> Bill&#8217;s talk about Wabash was part of the series of talks celebrating the 175th Anniversary of Wabash College.<\/p>\n<p>Bill talked about Wabash in 1907. But, of course, it wasn&#8217;t a history lesson so much as it was a discussion of the fabric of Wabash and how this place is set on the cornerstone of tremendous learning relationships.<\/p>\n<p>He was phenomenal. With <strong>Vic Powell, Joe O&#8217;Rourke, and Raymond Williams<\/strong> in Chapel, he had the attention of several Wabash legends!<\/p>\n<p>Bill makes pre-meal invocations rival the Gettysburg Address!<\/p>\n<p>Bill Placher &#8211; Some Little Giant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday&#8217;s Chapel Speaker was Bill Placher &#8217;70 &#8211; a Wabash legend. Bill&#8217;s talk about Wabash was part of the series of talks celebrating the 175th Anniversary of Wabash College. Bill talked about [&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-485","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\/485","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=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}