{"id":2137,"date":"2013-06-21T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2137"},"modified":"2013-06-21T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T19:18:09","slug":"if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2013\/06\/21\/if-youre-not-growing-youre-dying\/","title":{"rendered":"If You&#8217;re Not Growing, You&#8217;re Dying"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2138\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/06\/goodrich-.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2138\" title=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/06\/goodrich-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/06\/goodrich-.jpg 288w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/06\/goodrich--224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goodrich Hall Renovation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a reason the Grunge, an old guy by every definition under the sun at the age of 63.85, still works out and still lifts.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because the Grunge believes that there&#8217;s only two ways to approach living. \u00a0Define it or let it define you. \u00a0If you&#8217;re not growing, you&#8217;re dying.<\/p>\n<p>Same with our Wabash. \u00a0If we don&#8217;t take Wabash&#8217;s future seriously, and we don&#8217;t invest in it, Wabash will die. \u00a0Goodrich Hall is a good example. \u00a0Goodrich needed to be updated. \u00a0Options were to do nothing, to choose life support, or to invest in Goodrich. \u00a0Wabash picked life, growth, strength. \u00a0Same old Goodrich exterior&#8230;new heart, lungs, and all the other good stuff. \u00a0We invested in Goodrich.<\/p>\n<p>As the fiscal year draws to a close, the simple question is this &#8211; are you invested?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a &#8220;Yes&#8221; or &#8220;No&#8221; question &#8211; you don&#8217;t need a bluebook for this one. \u00a0If you take Wabash&#8217;s future seriously, you&#8217;ll invest. \u00a0Easiest way? \u00a0Right <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/alumni\/egift\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason the Grunge, an old guy by every definition under the sun at the age of 63.85, still works out and still lifts. That&#8217;s because the Grunge believes that there&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/06\/goodrich-.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137","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=2137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}