{"id":4058,"date":"2015-07-03T07:21:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T07:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4058"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:22:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:22:10","slug":"the-class-of-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/07\/03\/the-class-of-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class of 2005"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4059\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4059\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1630-540.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4059\" alt=\"IMG_1630-540\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1630-540.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1630-540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1630-540-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4059\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amen!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Class of 2005 had an incredible turnout at the Big Bash &#8211; 55 class members signed in. \u00a0The Grunge thought the record set by the Class of 1996 back in 2006 &#8211; 40 alumni returning &#8211; would stand for a long time. \u00a0Not so.<\/p>\n<p>Key ingredients &#8211; blindingly simple. \u00a0Strong leadership, active living unit representatives, and constant communication. \u00a0No rocket science involved but activity definitely required.<\/p>\n<p>There was a little back and forth with the Class of 1985 on the bench painting but &#8217;05 did, in fact, rule!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1632-540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4060\" alt=\"IMG_1632-540\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1632-540.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1632-540.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/07\/IMG_1632-540-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another reunion lesson here &#8211; beautifully done by the class. \u00a0Despite the fact that they are only 32 years old, they&#8217;ve already lost classmates. \u00a0Tony Lobdell and Ken Rudolph are mentioned on the bench. \u00a0You&#8217;re never too young or too busy to spend a little time getting back together with the guys you shared Wabash with in your Golden Age. \u00a0We all have an expiration date but none of us know when that will be. \u00a0Don&#8217;t leave a reunion on the table&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Class of 2005 had an incredible turnout at the Big Bash &#8211; 55 class members signed in. \u00a0The Grunge thought the record set by the Class of 1996 back in 2006 [&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-4058","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\/07\/IMG_1630-540.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058","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=4058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4062,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4058\/revisions\/4062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}