{"id":498,"date":"2007-12-06T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2007\/12\/06\/wabash-friendships-last-a-lifetime\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T08:35:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T08:35:14","slug":"wabash-friendships-last-a-lifetime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2007\/12\/06\/wabash-friendships-last-a-lifetime\/","title":{"rendered":"Wabash Friendships Last a Lifetime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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That’s Steve Riggs ’81<\/strong> and Hidenori Arai ’82<\/strong> having lunch in early November. Hidenori was on a layover for an international flight – Steve was only an hour away. For them, it was natural to get together.<\/p>\n

Steve and Hidenori have stayed in touch since the late 1970s when Hidenori spent a year at Wabash, including pledging the Phi Psi fraternity. In those days he was a college exchange student, making the trip from his native Japan to this little town in Indiana. Wabash has stayed in his blood for the past 25-plus years and so has the friendship with Steve.<\/p>\n

It’s a small, Little Giant world!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s Steve Riggs ’81 and Hidenori Arai ’82 having lunch in early November. Hidenori was on a layover for an international flight – Steve was only an hour away. For them, it […]<\/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-498","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\/498","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=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}