{"id":989,"date":"2009-11-13T11:59:25","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/2009\/11\/13\/jeff-birk-40-and-counting\/"},"modified":"2009-11-13T11:59:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T11:59:25","slug":"jeff-birk-40-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2009\/11\/13\/jeff-birk-40-and-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Birk &#8211; 40 and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"144\" height=\"217\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/jeff-birk(1).jpg\" \/>That&#8217;s <strong>Jeff Birk, Class of 1974<\/strong>. &nbsp;The 2009 Bell Game will be his 40th Bell Game in a row&#8230;40 of them&#8230;and he&#8217;s been there <strong>i<\/strong><strong>n person<\/strong> for every one.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I failed to check his overall won-loss record before posting this but&#8230;well&#8230;it just doesn&#8217;t matter.<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to Greg Birk, Jeff&#8217;s brother, for the note.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blog #984 &#8211; 16 more to go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s Jeff Birk, Class of 1974. &nbsp;The 2009 Bell Game will be his 40th Bell Game in a row&#8230;40 of them&#8230;and he&#8217;s been there in person for every one.&nbsp; I failed to [&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-989","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\/989","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=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}