{"id":4296,"date":"2015-10-30T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T07:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2015-10-29T16:55:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T16:55:51","slug":"chapel-talk-professor-rich-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/10\/30\/chapel-talk-professor-rich-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapel Talk &#8211; Professor Rich Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4298\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4298\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8075.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4298\" alt=\"Rich Woods\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8075.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8075.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8075-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Woods<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Professor* Rich Woods gave the Chapel Talk yesterday morning. \u00a0As soon as I saw the title &#8211; &#8220;Taking a Walk In The Dumb A** Zone&#8221; &#8211; I knew I had to be there. \u00a0(I&#8217;ve traveled the path through that zone more times than I care to count.)<\/p>\n<p>Rich didn&#8217;t disappoint. \u00a0Straight talk from one of the most respected people on campus. \u00a0I&#8217;ll not give away any gems &#8211; watch it on You Tube, including his ending!<\/p>\n<p>Every liberal arts education includes a class on the &#8220;zone&#8221;. \u00a0In a lot of places, you don&#8217;t get the luxury of someone telling you, in straight talk, how to avoid staying in the zone too long or falling right into the center. \u00a0 Most places you&#8217;re in the zone usually without a wingman. \u00a0At Wabash, Rich Woods in ALWAYS your wingman. \u00a0That doesn&#8217;t mean all sins are immediately forgiven. \u00a0It means Rich truly understands and he sees his teaching role as minimizing a young man&#8217;s opportunity to stay too long in the &#8220;zone&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4297\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4297\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4297\" alt=\"Rich Woods - Some Little Giant\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8046.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8046.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/10\/RW-8046-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rich Woods &#8211; Some Little Giant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>* Professor- Quick definition. \u00a0A teacher of the highest rank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor* Rich Woods gave the Chapel Talk yesterday morning. \u00a0As soon as I saw the title &#8211; &#8220;Taking a Walk In The Dumb A** Zone&#8221; &#8211; I knew I had to be [&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-4296","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\/RW-8046.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","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=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4302,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}