{"id":1185,"date":"2012-10-06T07:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2012-10-06T07:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:00:49","slug":"friends-for-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/10\/06\/friends-for-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends For Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1186\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1186\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/10\/Friends-11216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1186 \" title=\"Friends-11216\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/10\/Friends-11216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/10\/Friends-11216.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/10\/Friends-11216-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1186\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thumbs Up!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It went something like this. \u00a0I was scanning for a crowd photo during a break in the action. \u00a0These two Wabash men gave me the silent, &#8220;here&#8217;s a shot&#8221; signal. \u00a0I took it, along with another 600 or so that day.<\/p>\n<p>Working through some photos bright and early a couple of mornings ago, I came across it again. \u00a0The photo just wasn&#8217;t good&#8230;I was too close, they were backlite, the camera settings were all wrong&#8230;basically 100 different reasons why the shot might end up in the digital wastebasket.<\/p>\n<p>But it isn&#8217;t the photo that counts here, I told myself. \u00a0It&#8217;s the friendship. \u00a0It says, no yells, &#8220;we&#8217;re friends&#8230;at Wabash&#8230;and for all time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll bet you can relate to that, right?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It went something like this. \u00a0I was scanning for a crowd photo during a break in the action. \u00a0These two Wabash men gave me the silent, &#8220;here&#8217;s a shot&#8221; signal. \u00a0I took [&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-1185","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\/10\/Friends-11216.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","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=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}