{"id":742,"date":"2008-11-25T08:27:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T08:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2008\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/"},"modified":"2008-11-25T08:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T08:27:51","slug":"happy-thanksgiving-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2008\/11\/25\/happy-thanksgiving-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Thanksgiving!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/center%20hall%20(1).jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"top\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere on the drive to the new Indy airport, I made the transition from<br \/>\n\u201cGrunge\u201d to \u201cGaBunge\u201d\u2026feels good.<\/p>\n<p>Sitting in my son\u2019s living room in C Springs\u2026body still on Indy time \u2013 no one else up yet. Time to think.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to have the \u201cMo-Zam-Beak\u201d (fighter talk for \u201cnot the happiest\u201d) about this fall. A boatload of the news, from worldwide to U.S. to Wabash, has not been good.<\/p>\n<p>However\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We are where we are and it is what it is. As much as we may not like this fall\u2019s \u201chistory\u201d, it\u2019s in the books. We have the chance to make the next day\u2019s history\u2026and the one after that. I\u2019m thankful for that.<\/p>\n<p>I am thankful for a great family and for our freedom. I am thankful for 906 bright and talented young Wabash men. They\u2019re world changers. They\u2019ll \u201cget-r-done\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Thanksgiving!<br \/>\nGaBunge<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: beginning of a new day at Wabash.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere on the drive to the new Indy airport, I made the transition from \u201cGrunge\u201d to \u201cGaBunge\u201d\u2026feels good. Sitting in my son\u2019s living room in C Springs\u2026body still on Indy time \u2013 [&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-742","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\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}