{"id":3977,"date":"2015-05-20T18:40:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2015-05-20T18:40:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T18:40:33","slug":"john-fischer-h70-life-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/05\/20\/john-fischer-h70-life-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"John Fischer H&#8217;70 &#8211; Life Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3978\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3978\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/fischer-3465.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3978\" alt=\"John Fischer H'70 back on campus\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/fischer-3465.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/fischer-3465.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/05\/fischer-3465-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3978\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Fischer H&#8217;70 back on campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Prof. John Fischer, honorary alumnus and now holder of an Honorary Wabash Doctorate, was on campus this past weekend to receive his degree. \u00a0A few Lambda Chi leaders &#8211; Scott Eggers, Greg Estell, Ted Grossnickle, Greg Castanias, and many others &#8211; arranged a reception for John on Saturday afternoon. \u00a0The guest list hit 150 bringing alumni back from every corner of the Country. \u00a0A special thanks goes to Sarah Estell for doing a great job on everything for invitations to guest lists to logistics.<\/p>\n<p>John was a teacher at Wabash for 40 years. \u00a0His subject matter expertise wasn&#8217;t so much in a subject as it was in &#8220;being&#8221;. \u00a0<em>Being<\/em> a gentleman. \u00a0<em>Being<\/em> a responsible citizen. \u00a0<em>Being<\/em> accountable. \u00a0<em>Being<\/em> trustworthy. \u00a0He also had a class called &#8220;No whining.&#8221; \u00a0You did not want to get labeled &#8220;feckless&#8221; by this man, I assure you!<\/p>\n<p>John Fischer changed men for the better and those men have gone on to make our world be better. \u00a0Is there any greater purpose?<\/p>\n<p>John Fischer &#8211; Some Little Giant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. John Fischer, honorary alumnus and now holder of an Honorary Wabash Doctorate, was on campus this past weekend to receive his degree. \u00a0A few Lambda Chi leaders &#8211; Scott Eggers, Greg [&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-3977","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\/05\/fischer-3465.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","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=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3979,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}