{"id":936,"date":"2009-09-20T18:26:05","date_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/09\/20\/just-a-friendly-picnic-for-300\/"},"modified":"2009-09-20T18:26:05","modified_gmt":"2009-09-20T18:26:05","slug":"just-a-friendly-picnic-for-300","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/09\/20\/just-a-friendly-picnic-for-300\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a Friendly Picnic&#8230;for 300!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/tailgate(1).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What do you call a family picnic with 300..or so&#8230;of your family? &nbsp;You call it a Wabash College football tailgate! &nbsp;It was an absolute blast!<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we had twice as many people as we were expecting but to my knowledge everyone had more than enough to eat.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of the credit goes to three people &#8211; <strong>Tom Whowell &#8217;62 <\/strong>(in the Gordy&#8217;s shirt), his friend <strong>Jessie<\/strong>, and the lovely <strong>Carol Runge.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;Tom and Jessie brought the &quot;professional grade&quot; tailgating grill and all the extras. &nbsp;Carol, when the count went higher and higher, made sure we had enough food and a good variety as well.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" align=\"middle\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/tom and Jessie.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to all who made it work but especially to those three!<\/p>\n<p>For additional tailgate photos by Howard Hewitt, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=2117\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you call a family picnic with 300..or so&#8230;of your family? &nbsp;You call it a Wabash College football tailgate! &nbsp;It was an absolute blast! Of course, we had twice as many [&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-936","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\/936","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=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}