{"id":850,"date":"2009-05-15T07:51:32","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T07:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/05\/15\/the-real-test-of-commencement-time\/"},"modified":"2009-05-15T07:51:32","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T07:51:32","slug":"the-real-test-of-commencement-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/05\/15\/the-real-test-of-commencement-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real Test of Commencement Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"288\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/bleachers.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Commencement is here. &nbsp;This coming Sunday. &nbsp;The Class of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing to note is that the REAL signal to many a senior is this historic event &#8211; the raising of the Commencement bleachers. &nbsp;The seniors have a multitude of chores to complete before Commencement, not the least of which is finals, papers, and of course, Comps. &nbsp;But in talking to one of the class agents for the Class of 2009, the bleachers going up is the watershed moment for Commencement. That means it really will happen.<\/p>\n<p>He told me he worried on Wednesday when the &quot;sign&quot; had not yet appeared. &nbsp;Did that mean the bleachers were cost-engineered out? &nbsp;I assured him that we could still pay for the bleachers.<\/p>\n<p>65 degrees and sunny this Sunday. &nbsp;Can&#8217;t wait. &nbsp;The seniors? &nbsp;Well, they are truly conflicted. &nbsp;A story for another time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commencement is here. &nbsp;This coming Sunday. &nbsp;The Class of 2009. The interesting thing to note is that the REAL signal to many a senior is this historic event &#8211; the raising of [&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-850","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\/850","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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}