{"id":2685,"date":"2013-12-04T13:13:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2685"},"modified":"2013-12-04T13:13:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T13:13:14","slug":"180-years-ago-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2013\/12\/04\/180-years-ago-yesterday\/","title":{"rendered":"180 Years Ago&#8230;Yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2686\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2686\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/12\/wetzel-teaching.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2686\" title=\"wetzel-teaching\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/12\/wetzel-teaching.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/12\/wetzel-teaching.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2013\/12\/wetzel-teaching-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2686\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Eric Wetzel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eric Wetzel is a super guy &#8211; great humanitarian, great teacher, motivator, and mentor. \u00a0<strong>He gets it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>180 years ago yesterday, Wabash held its first class. \u00a0Everything had to be different. \u00a0No world class Hays Science Hall. \u00a0No cool Wabash sweatshirts to wear to class. \u00a0Jeans had not been invented yet. \u00a0Heck, no flip-flops.<\/p>\n<p>Instead some coat and tie&#8230;with a super-starched collar to bear &#8211; for students and faculty alike. \u00a0180 years&#8230;almost everything has changed. \u00a0Except one thing.<\/p>\n<p>My gut tell me that young mens&#8217; lives were changed back then&#8230;just as they are today in Eric&#8217;s class. \u00a0I sense we&#8217;ve survived and prospered because our graduates have what it takes &#8211; regardless of what the &#8220;it&#8221; needs to be.<\/p>\n<p>Think critically&#8230;act responsibly&#8230;lead effectively&#8230;live humanely&#8230;.timeless and priceless.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Wetzel is a super guy &#8211; great humanitarian, great teacher, motivator, and mentor. \u00a0He gets it. 180 years ago yesterday, Wabash held its first class. \u00a0Everything had to be different. \u00a0No [&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-2685","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\/12\/wetzel-teaching.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685","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=2685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}