{"id":849,"date":"2009-05-14T12:44:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/05\/14\/the-senior-bench-a-first\/"},"modified":"2009-05-14T12:44:21","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T12:44:21","slug":"the-senior-bench-a-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/05\/14\/the-senior-bench-a-first\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senior Bench &#8211; A First?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/intern1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, after seeing the Senior Bench in a paint &quot;disarray&quot; a few days ago, I decided to swing by with the camera to &quot;see what I could see&quot;. &nbsp;I have to admit, my jaw dropped just a wee bit when I rounded the corner to see the pink bench nicely trimmed.<\/p>\n<p>Pink bench&#8230;hmmm&#8230;the fighter pilot in me started&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Then I walked to the back of the bench and the light came on. &nbsp;Vilma Santana, a Modern Language intern, and the other interns had decided to paint the bench. &nbsp;That part I knew&#8230;sort of.<\/p>\n<p>I wondered aloud how that might turn out.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I found&#8230;and I had hoped to find this sort of &quot;statement.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/intern2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These young ladies love Wabash. &nbsp;I guess I knew that&#8230;or hoped that they loved their experience here.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>This Good Place&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><em>blessed with interns who get the place and genuinely help these young men grow.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, after seeing the Senior Bench in a paint &quot;disarray&quot; a few days ago, I decided to swing by with the camera to &quot;see what I could see&quot;. &nbsp;I have to admit, [&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-849","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\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}