{"id":144,"date":"2011-10-25T08:30:02","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T08:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-10-25T08:30:02","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T08:30:02","slug":"mike-funk-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2011\/10\/25\/mike-funk-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Funk &#8217;89"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Mike Funk &#8217;89 passed away after a courageous battle against cancer and pneumonia. \u00a0As it is, there just aren&#8217;t the right kind of words from a poor, dumb fighter pilot.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know Mike personally but I know a couple of his close Wabash friends. \u00a0That tells me all I need to know.<\/p>\n<p>John Panozzo &#8217;89, my Colorado doc, says Mike&#8217;s nickname is &#8220;The Gamer&#8221; because Mike always came through in the clutch. \u00a0John visited Mike for a week not too long ago. \u00a0They took in every single inning of the National League and American League Championship series together. \u00a0John said it was quality time &#8211; in every sense of the word.<\/p>\n<div>\n<dl>\n<dt>\n<figure id=\"attachment_146\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/mike-funk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/mike-funk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/mike-funk.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/mike-funk-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Funk &#039;89 (middle) and his Wabash buddies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll recall a bunch of Wabash guys joined Mike in Atlanta for the 2010 SuperBowl. \u00a0Mike shaved his head as he started Chemo &#8211; they all did as well. \u00a0Wabash guys &#8211; you just wouldn&#8217;t expect anything less.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t the length of the journey that matters &#8211; the destination and your traveling companions are the real counters. \u00a0&#8220;The Gamer&#8221; won on both counts.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep Christie and their children in your thoughts and prayers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Mike Funk &#8217;89 passed away after a courageous battle against cancer and pneumonia. \u00a0As it is, there just aren&#8217;t the right kind of words from a poor, dumb fighter pilot. I [&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-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/mike-funk.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}