{"id":1003,"date":"2012-08-19T19:35:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2012-08-19T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T19:35:03","slug":"ringing-in-the-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/08\/19\/ringing-in-the-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringing In The Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/ringing-in_TR19240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1004\" title=\"ringing in_TR19240\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/ringing-in_TR19240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/ringing-in_TR19240.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/ringing-in_TR19240-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Pat White Rings In The Class Of 2016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The problem with being a fighter pilot temporarily transplanted into Academia is often trying to describe things. \u00a0For example, Chapel Sing or yesterday&#8217;s Ringing In ceremony. \u00a0If I were with my friends and they asked about one of those, I have a two word code I could use and they would completely understand. \u00a0Adding one extra code would make it world class special. \u00a0(Sorry &#8211; can&#8217;t share &#8211; those codes are &#8220;classified&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>So, this poor dumb fighter pilot is left trying to describe the indescribable &#8211; another Ringing In Ceremony. \u00a0Let me put it this way. \u00a0Goose bumps&#8230;few dry eyes&#8230;a life changing moment&#8230;.and I am just talking parents. \u00a0Take a look at the faces of the parents in the photo album&#8230;that will tell you.<\/p>\n<p>Another great Ringing In Ceremony and another great year ahead of us!<\/p>\n<p>For a few more photos from the cheap seats, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/photo_album\/home.cfm?photo_album_id=3306\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem with being a fighter pilot temporarily transplanted into Academia is often trying to describe things. \u00a0For example, Chapel Sing or yesterday&#8217;s Ringing In ceremony. \u00a0If I were with my friends [&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-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/08\/ringing-in_TR19240.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}