{"id":3856,"date":"2015-04-16T07:01:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-16T07:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3856"},"modified":"2015-04-15T14:01:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T14:01:55","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/04\/16\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3857\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3857\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Lacrosse-orig.-7086.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3857\" alt=\"Lacrosse orig.-7086\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Lacrosse-orig.-7086.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Lacrosse-orig.-7086.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/04\/Lacrosse-orig.-7086-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Barnstead \u201806, Jacob Bradley \u201801, Rob Walker \u201899, Nick Prihoda \u201899, David Coates \u201899<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Wabash Lacrosse is a new varsity sport this year. \u00a0That means two things.<\/p>\n<p>First, it will take a little time, even for the Little Giants. \u00a0I think we&#8217;ll be very competitive &#8211; playing for the conference title and the NCAA postseason &#8211; in the not-too-distant future. \u00a0But it won&#8217;t be next Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Second, the drive to bring Lacrosse to Wabash at this level didn&#8217;t start yesterday. \u00a0Guys have been playing Lacrosse as a Club sport for a couple of years. \u00a0Five of these pioneers were back on campus last weekend to cheer on the Little Giants. \u00a0Rob Walker, Nick Prihoda, and David Coates were here when it all started and Jacob Bradley joined those guys as well. \u00a0Alex Barnstead is a younger but no less enthusiastic alumnus.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line &#8211; these guys and their teammates started it all and it&#8217;s their drive and determination that has us where we are today. \u00a0They have to be very proud of what they started!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wabash Lacrosse is a new varsity sport this year. \u00a0That means two things. First, it will take a little time, even for the Little Giants. \u00a0I think we&#8217;ll be very competitive &#8211; [&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-3856","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\/04\/Lacrosse-orig.-7086.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3860,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/3860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}