{"id":7605,"date":"2014-04-15T08:57:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=7605"},"modified":"2014-04-15T08:57:09","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T12:57:09","slug":"jim-amidon-87-always-fights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2014\/04\/15\/jim-amidon-87-always-fights\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Amidon \u201987 always fights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jim Amidon \u201987<\/strong> has fought cancer five times.\u00a0 As almost everyone knows, Jim arrived at Wabash as a freshman in 1983 and never left.\u00a0 After graduation he worked in various positions through the years, including Director of Sports Information, Director of Public Affairs and Marketing, and is currently the Chief of Staff and Board of Trustees Secretary for the College.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7606\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/04\/amidon-family.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7606\" title=\"amidon family\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2014\/04\/amidon-family.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim, Sammie, and Chris.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/news\/article_f36c3c9c-c373-11e3-bea8-0019bb2963f4.html\">Click here<\/a> for a story about Jim and his family featured in this week\u2019s local <em>Journal Review<\/em>.\u00a0 You won\u2019t forget it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Amidon \u201987 has fought cancer five times.\u00a0 As almost everyone knows, Jim arrived at Wabash as a freshman in 1983 and never left.\u00a0 After graduation he worked in various positions through [&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-7605","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\/7605","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=7605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}