{"id":3813,"date":"2015-03-30T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2015-03-26T17:32:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T17:32:27","slug":"pots-a-tale-of-wabash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/03\/30\/pots-a-tale-of-wabash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pots&#8230;A Tale of Wabash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3814\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3814\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/pots-2424.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3814\" alt=\"The old and the new...both timeless in their own way.\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/pots-2424.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/pots-2424.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/pots-2424-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The old and the new&#8230;both timeless in their own way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Took this photo right before President Hess&#8217; Chapel talk. \u00a0I was struck by the symbolism of the old and new Sphinx Club pledge pots side by side.<\/p>\n<p>One denotes a proud past&#8230;.who are the guys who have worn that particular pot?<\/p>\n<p>One denotes a newness&#8230;crafted upon tradition. \u00a0Who will wear that pot? \u00a0Which one of your sons or grandsons will don that one?<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t this all about Wabash? \u00a0I call it &#8220;state of the art traditional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We do some things the same way we have always done them&#8230;because we believe that&#8217;s best. \u00a0We continually refine other things because we&#8217;re in the pursuit of perfection. \u00a0How do we tell the difference? \u00a0Honestly, I don&#8217;t know. \u00a0But I do know that Chapel Sing remains a cornerstone of Wabash and having the absolute best textbooks, teachers, and labs is also a cornerstone of Wabash.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s pretty deep for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And all of that makes this poor, dumb fighter pilot&#8217;s head spin!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Took this photo right before President Hess&#8217; Chapel talk. \u00a0I was struck by the symbolism of the old and new Sphinx Club pledge pots side by side. One denotes a proud past&#8230;.who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/pots-2424.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","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=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3816,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}