{"id":7041,"date":"2013-12-19T11:19:47","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7041"},"modified":"2013-12-19T11:19:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T16:19:47","slug":"prof-bill-placher-70-leaves-a-legacy-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/12\/19\/prof-bill-placher-70-leaves-a-legacy-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Bill Placher \u201970 leaves a legacy library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/Placher5a.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7042\" title=\"Placher5a\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/12\/Placher5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Wabash College\u2019s beloved Professor of Religion <strong>Bill Placher \u201970<\/strong> died unexpectedly in 2008.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span>He left his personal library to Wabash, and requested that what Wabash could not use would go to a theological institution overseas:<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span>The Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo was chosen, and it was in full use by the seminary last spring.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman\">\u00a0 <\/span>Bill\u2019s own commentary on the Gospel of Mark was added to the library just a few weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcusa.org\/news\/2013\/12\/19\/library-legacy\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Times New Roman\">Click here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> to read the details about Bill\u2019s library gift.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wabash College\u2019s beloved Professor of Religion Bill Placher \u201970 died unexpectedly in 2008.\u00a0 He left his personal library to Wabash, and requested that what Wabash could not use would go to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7041","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\/7041","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\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}