{"id":874,"date":"2009-06-12T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T07:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/06\/12\/brandon-stewart-08\/"},"modified":"2009-06-12T07:10:45","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T07:10:45","slug":"brandon-stewart-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/06\/12\/brandon-stewart-08\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Stewart &#039;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"216\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/brandon stewart.jpg\" \/>Had a chance to have lunch near Independence Hall with 2008 graduate <strong>Brandon Stewart<\/strong>. &nbsp;Brandon works for<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefire.org\"> FIRE<\/a> &#8211; that&#8217;s the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. &nbsp;FIRE protects the rights of faculty and students who believe those rights have been compromised. &nbsp;FIRE is co-funded by grants and by the donations of private parties who appreciate the work of the organization.<\/p>\n<p>It was clearly evident that Brandon really enjoys what he does. &nbsp;It&#8221;s almost as if the stars aligned, the clouds open, and the job\/person match was formed up there. &nbsp;Brandon does sees himslef in politics one day, behind the scenes as he says, but for right now, he&#8217;s living the liberal arts life. &nbsp;Something new and different every single day.<\/p>\n<p>You probably have heard Brandon is working with Bruce Gras &#8217;68 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabashstories.com\">Wabash Stories<\/a> as well. &nbsp;That&#8217;s good news for all &#8211; Bruce and Brandon are movers and shakers who will keep that site growing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a chance to have lunch near Independence Hall with 2008 graduate Brandon Stewart. &nbsp;Brandon works for FIRE &#8211; that&#8217;s the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. &nbsp;FIRE protects the rights 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-874","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\/874","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=874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}