{"id":2222,"date":"2013-07-23T07:02:32","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2013-07-23T07:02:32","modified_gmt":"2013-07-23T07:02:32","slug":"charlie-crowley-70-checks-in-on-vacation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2013\/07\/23\/charlie-crowley-70-checks-in-on-vacation\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Crowley &#8217;70 Checks In On Vacation"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2223\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2223\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/crowley-0877.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2223 \" title=\"crowley-0877\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/crowley-0877.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/crowley-0877.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/07\/crowley-0877-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2223\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Crowley &#8217;70<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I am reminded of the book &#8220;Travels with Charley&#8221; by Steinbeck. \u00a0Every summer I get a travel update from alumnus Charlie Crowley &#8217;70. \u00a0This time he checks in from the top of the Grand Teton.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Grunge,\u00a0 Thought I\u2019d pass on a couple of vacation photos.\u00a0 I just returned from a family trip out west to Jackson, Wyoming.\u00a0 While there I took a couple of days to climb Grand Teton, a beautiful peak.\u00a0 I\u2019m attaching a couple summit photos.\u00a0 One is with appropriately colored red windbreaker.\u00a0 After that photo I threw on my \u201cCROWLEY POWER\u201d t-shirt and grabbed my homemade Wabash flag (thank you Mary) first used on the Matterhorn summit I climbed during a Wabash alumni trip to Switzerland 30+ years ago.\u00a0 I climbed the Grand before with TKE brothers Don Briggs and Phil Radtke in 1976 or \u201977.\u00a0 I noted the mountain has gotten steeper and higher since my first efforts.\u00a0 Must be the tectonic plates movement!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks Charlie!<\/p>\n<p>Reminds me that I need a lightweight Wabash flag for the next Grand Cnyon excursion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am reminded of the book &#8220;Travels with Charley&#8221; by Steinbeck. \u00a0Every summer I get a travel update from alumnus Charlie Crowley &#8217;70. \u00a0This time he checks in from the top of [&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-2222","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\/07\/crowley-0877.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222","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=2222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}