{"id":39,"date":"2011-10-07T15:33:04","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=39"},"modified":"2011-10-07T15:33:04","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T15:33:04","slug":"steve-jobs-a-liberal-arts-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2011\/10\/07\/steve-jobs-a-liberal-arts-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs &#8211; A Liberal Arts Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Apple Web Site<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday. \u00a0My son, Jeremy, an Apple store manager in Denver, Colorado, told me people were showing up at the store bringing flowers. \u00a0That&#8217;s a retail store several hundred miles from Cupertino and all that is Apple.<\/p>\n<p>It gives you a small sense for the loss many of us are feeling.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs is one of a kind for sure. \u00a0Apple, and it&#8217;s impact on the world, is still there today. \u00a0Sadder, sure. \u00a0But still a difference maker in our lives.<\/p>\n<p>What has all this to do with Wabash? \u00a0Steve Jobs is one of us. \u00a0A liberal arts guy. \u00a0Reed College, Portland, Oregon. \u00a0Steve dropped out but never left, so to speak. \u00a0One of his favorite courses? \u00a0IT? \u00a0No, calligraphy. \u00a0And there&#8217;s an Apple connection there as well.<\/p>\n<p>As the Commencement speaker at Stanford a few years back, he laid it all out. \u00a0You can see it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuodesign.com\/pineapple\/stanford.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Connect those dots&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It won&#8217;t be easy, it will be worth it&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stay Hungry. \u00a0Stay foolish.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Guts&#8230;brains&#8230;spirit&#8230;strength&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Steve Jobs&#8230;meet Bill Placher&#8230;and Vic Powell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Jobs passed away Wednesday. \u00a0My son, Jeremy, an Apple store manager in Denver, Colorado, told me people were showing up at the store bringing flowers. \u00a0That&#8217;s a retail store several hundred [&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-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/10\/steve-jobs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}