{"id":8442,"date":"2015-02-27T14:37:41","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8442"},"modified":"2015-02-27T14:37:41","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T19:37:41","slug":"barton-00-mans-up-to-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/02\/27\/barton-00-mans-up-to-middle-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Barton \u201900 \u201cMans\u201d Up! to middle school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/Todd-Barton-cropt.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8443\" alt=\"Todd Barton cropt\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/Todd-Barton-cropt.jpg\" width=\"177\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/Todd-Barton-cropt.jpg 227w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/Todd-Barton-cropt-183x300.jpg 183w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>Mayor Todd Barton \u201900<\/strong> spoke with 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade boys at Crawfordsville Middle School this week.\u00a0 <em>Man Up!<\/em> is a developmental program whose mission is to teach middle school boys how to be responsible young men.\u00a0 In relating his own life story to the group, Todd encouraged them not to become discouraged during life when they don\u2019t \u201cget it\u201d on a first attempt.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalreview.com\/news\/article_d7c4052e-bd5a-11e4-9101-4fe8071b33ca.html?mode=print\">Click here<\/a> to read about his entire presentation.<\/p>\n<p>After high school, Todd was a paramedic and firefighter in Crawfordsville, and was eventually named Fire Chief. \u00a0A few years after joining the fire department, he decided to earn a college degree, and graduated from Wabash in 2000.\u00a0 Todd has been the mayor of Crawfordsville since 2011, and is a leader in the town-gown effort funded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc..\u00a0 The \u201cWabash Initiative for Leadership and Economic Development in Indiana\u201d will create and nurture new partnerships between Wabash College, the city of Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, and small and large businesses with regional and international reach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Todd Barton \u201900 spoke with 8th grade boys at Crawfordsville Middle School this week.\u00a0 Man Up! is a developmental program whose mission is to teach middle school boys how to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/02\/Todd-Barton-cropt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442","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=8442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8446,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8442\/revisions\/8446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}