{"id":2306,"date":"2013-08-27T18:25:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2306"},"modified":"2013-08-27T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T18:25:18","slug":"its-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2013\/08\/27\/its-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Tradition!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2307\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/08\/amidon-8640.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2307\" title=\"amidon-8640\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/08\/amidon-8640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/08\/amidon-8640.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/08\/amidon-8640-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cross Country Runner Photographed by Jim Amidon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Just before Freshman Orientation started, I caught up with Jim Amidon &#8217;87, Wabash&#8217;s Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Communications, as he was taking the photos of this year&#8217;s Cross Country team.<\/p>\n<p>The crew all sported sunglasses&#8230;.for a large % of them it was the same sunglasses. \u00a0So I had to do the dumb thing and ask. \u00a0Tradition, of course, was the answer. \u00a0The dudes look tough AND cool with the glasses.<\/p>\n<p>I get it&#8230;a culture of tough, cool, and competitive. \u00a0Guys you&#8217;d say are <em>seriously<\/em> competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Freshman Orientation started, I caught up with Jim Amidon &#8217;87, Wabash&#8217;s Chief of Staff and Director of Strategic Communications, as he was taking the photos of this year&#8217;s Cross Country [&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-2306","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\/08\/amidon-8640.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306","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=2306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}