{"id":1302,"date":"2015-09-04T19:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:57:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:57:07","slug":"a-wonderful-and-exciting-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2015\/09\/04\/a-wonderful-and-exciting-life\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Wonderful Life&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1303\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1303\" style=\"width: 224px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/image5.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1303\" alt=\"McQuillin prepares to play the bagpipes.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/image5-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/image5-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/image5.jpg 299w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1303\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">McQuillin prepares to play the bagpipes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Chris McQuillin<\/b> \u201982 says, &#8220;I have been transitioning my career to academics for the past nine years. I am now an assistant professor of graduate studies at Valparaiso University and an adjunct professor in the University of San Diego Law Enforcement &amp; Public Safety Leadership Master&#8217;s Degree Program (online). I am also the legal content manager and adjunct instructor at Brown Mackie College on the Merrillville, IN campus. I am presently researching the cost effectiveness of privatizing government functions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the midst of all of that, along with my bagpipe playing, Jan and I spend time with our girls and enjoy life. Nicole will finish her master&#8217;s degree at Indiana University in May 2016, Megan, already an RN in Lafayette, will complete her BSN in May 2016, and Natalie is beginning her senior year at Valparaiso High School. We have a wonderful and exciting life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris McQuillin \u201982 says, &#8220;I have been transitioning my career to academics for the past nine years. I am now an assistant professor of graduate studies at Valparaiso University and an adjunct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/mccallum-bagpipes.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1302\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}