{"id":625,"date":"2008-06-11T10:28:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/06\/11\/big-bash-2008-fun-run\/"},"modified":"2008-06-11T10:28:51","modified_gmt":"2008-06-11T10:28:51","slug":"big-bash-2008-fun-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/06\/11\/big-bash-2008-fun-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Bash 2008 &quot;Fun Run&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/fun%20run.jpg\" \/>Let me set the stage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Friday evening of this year&#8217;s Big Bash we had over 400 people dining in the Knowling Fieldhouse. It&#8217;s a beautiful location with a great view on three sides &#8211; floor to ceiling windows make it superb.<\/p>\n<p>However, the view suddenly changed when we combined Severe Thunderstorm warnings with a Tornado watch and forecast straight line winds in excess of 80 miles per hour. We made it through the evening, however, without getting 400 people in the locker rooms downstairs!<\/p>\n<p>So, driving in to work early Saturday morning, I thought we had &#8220;weathered the storm&#8221;. Little did I know!<\/p>\n<p>Saturday morning the heavens opened up with thunderstorm after thunderstorm &#8211; the day&#8217;s schedule changed in a heartbeat. This photo shows our Big Bash Fun Run! We went from a nice morning run around campus to&#8230;well&#8230;you see.<\/p>\n<p>Big Bash 2008 &#8211; one we&#8217;ll all remember.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me set the stage&#8230; The Friday evening of this year&#8217;s Big Bash we had over 400 people dining in the Knowling Fieldhouse. It&#8217;s a beautiful location with a great view on [&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-625","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\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}