{"id":768,"date":"2009-01-19T19:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/01\/19\/what-a-week\/"},"modified":"2009-01-19T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T19:15:54","slug":"what-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/01\/19\/what-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/gary%20james.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>Today is Martin Luther King Day. A little later today I&#8217;ll drift over to the Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies and see if there&#8217;s a photo op.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow our country&#8217;s first African-American president, Barack Obama, will assume the office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Priceless and Historic.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our young men will someday talk about this week the way my generation mentions November 22, 1963 &#8211; the day President Kennedy was shot. We all know exactly where we were when we heard the news.<\/p>\n<p>This young man, Gary James &#8217;10, who I have introduced to you before, will be wearing that smile this week for sure. Gary put in countless hours working for the Obama campaign in the Montgomery County area.<\/p>\n<p>President Pat White challenges our young men to go out and change the world. Junior Gary James already has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Martin Luther King Day. A little later today I&#8217;ll drift over to the Malcolm X Institute for Black Studies and see if there&#8217;s a photo op. Tomorrow our country&#8217;s first [&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-768","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\/768","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=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}