{"id":4279,"date":"2015-10-26T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2015-10-28T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T12:25:26","slug":"aj-clark-16-to-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/10\/26\/aj-clark-16-to-the-house\/","title":{"rendered":"AJ Clark &#8217;16 &#8211; To The House"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4280\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4280\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0415.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4280\" alt=\"AJ Clark-0415\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0415.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0415.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0415-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4280\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AJ Clark takes it to the house<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AJ Clark &#8217;16 is as nice a young man as you&#8217;ll ever meet. \u00a0Over the past four years I&#8217;ve had a chance to talk with him on several occasions. \u00a0Great young man &#8211; he&#8217;ll be a world changer.<\/p>\n<p>AJ has been a solid contributor on special teams while at Wabash. \u00a0Things change and this year AJ has been starting at linebacker..and he&#8217;s been an impact player. \u00a0He&#8217;s always around the ball and no highlight reel is complete without an AJ Clark tackle or two.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday at Wooster was no different&#8230;but it was. \u00a0That&#8217;s AJ streaking down the sidelines on his way to the end zone on a pick &#8211; six. \u00a0As I watched, through the lens, as AJ tucked the ball in and took off, I said to myself: &#8220;He will not let anyone catch him.&#8221; \u00a0And he didn&#8217;t. \u00a0Different gear&#8230;absolutely. \u00a0But it was his mind and heart &#8211; clearly visible from 40 yards away &#8211; that told the story. \u00a0I almost put the camera down and started clapping.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the play, with his teammates all around him, the smile came out.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4281\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4281\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0432.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4281\" alt=\"AJ Clark-0432\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0432.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0432.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/AJ-Clark-0432-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4281\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Touchdown AJ Clark!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>AJ held on to that football for awhile. \u00a0The official didn&#8217;t run in and grab it&#8230;I think he understood what a special time it was. \u00a0For AJ&#8230;and for his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AJ Clark &#8217;16 is as nice a young man as you&#8217;ll ever meet. \u00a0Over the past four years I&#8217;ve had a chance to talk with him on several occasions. \u00a0Great young man [&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-4279","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\/10\/AJ-Clark-0415.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","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=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4294,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}