{"id":2852,"date":"2014-02-11T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2014-02-11T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T13:13:06","slug":"this-good-place-and-that-good-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2014\/02\/11\/this-good-place-and-that-good-place\/","title":{"rendered":"This Good Place&#8230;and that Good Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2853\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2853\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/allegheny1-1404sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2853\" title=\"allegheny1-1404sm\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/allegheny1-1404sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/allegheny1-1404sm.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/allegheny1-1404sm-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2853\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Montgomery County Special Olympics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At halftime of Saturday&#8217;s Wabash basketball game, very few fans left their seats. \u00a0Our fans and students cheered every play, just like they would for the Little Giants.<\/p>\n<p>The roar was for the athletes playing a mini-game &#8211; our local young men and young women who compete in the Special Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>It was competitive, as you can see in the photo. \u00a0But it was a model for all of us to learn. \u00a0High level of competition, effort by everyone on the court, no hurt feelings, no ball hogs, no &#8220;all O and no D&#8221;. \u00a0Simply young men and women enjoying a sport we all know and love.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It was amazing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Grunge had the opportunity to travel to see the #2 team in the nation play on the following day. \u00a0It was Pink Zone day. (They put me to work selling programs like I was back there in the old days!) \u00a0At half time, they had a ring of cancer survivors around the entire court and introduced an alumna who had beaten breast cancer. \u00a0Her story brought the standing &#8220;O&#8221;. \u00a0The focus was on the power of prayer and healing and working for a cure..at that Good Place.<\/p>\n<p>For the weekend in basketball, the Grunge and Carol went 3-0&#8230;but long after the scores and outcomes are forgotten, the spirit of these Good Places will burn bright.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At halftime of Saturday&#8217;s Wabash basketball game, very few fans left their seats. \u00a0Our fans and students cheered every play, just like they would for the Little Giants. The roar was for [&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-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2014\/02\/allegheny1-1404sm.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","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=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}