{"id":948,"date":"2009-10-01T08:17:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T08:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/10\/01\/going-but-never-forgotten\/"},"modified":"2009-10-01T08:17:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T08:17:31","slug":"going-but-never-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/10\/01\/going-but-never-forgotten\/","title":{"rendered":"Going&#8230;But Never Forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" align=\"top\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/fiji(2).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Took this photo this morning&#8230;work had just started for the day. &nbsp;The old Phi Gam house is yielding its turf.<\/p>\n<p>My uncle, Tom Mason &#8217;47, was a Phi Gam&#8230;and I think my great uncle, Ben Myers &#8217;16, was as well. &nbsp;My Uncle Tom wanted my son to join &#8211; he looked, but found a home elsewhere. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the real story is the impact of the Phi Gam fraternity, like all of our fraternities, down through the decades.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re sorry to see the house go. &nbsp;How many guys can look back and smile at <em>their<\/em> FIJI Island or a Homecoming float mysteriously set ablaze?<\/p>\n<p>The great thing about Wabash is that the structures may come and go, but the memories and the life-long impacts live on and on. &nbsp;A lot of those memories just moved ever so slightly south on Grant Ave. There&#8217;s new history being made right there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took this photo this morning&#8230;work had just started for the day. &nbsp;The old Phi Gam house is yielding its turf. My uncle, Tom Mason &#8217;47, was a Phi Gam&#8230;and I think my [&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-948","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\/948","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=948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}