{"id":4328,"date":"2015-11-12T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T07:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2015-11-11T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T16:12:00","slug":"the-50th-anniversary-of-the-great-bell-heist-a-la-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2015\/11\/12\/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-great-bell-heist-a-la-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"The 50th Anniversary of the Great Bell Heist a la Mexico!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4330\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4330\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/Monon-Bell-3683.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4330\" alt=\"The Monon Bell\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/Monon-Bell-3683.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/Monon-Bell-3683.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/11\/Monon-Bell-3683-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Monon Bell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b><i>\u00a0<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Guest post from a good\u00a0friend.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was my Freshman year (1965), we hadn\u2019t won the bell since 1955, and then, miracle of miracles, the Bell gets swiped by an enterprising Wally from a characteristically stupid Dannie: President Kerbsetter (as we called him), winner of the No-Bell Prize.\u00a0 It\u2019s such a great story, and was an irreplaceably fabulous moment for us Rhynes, as we were then called.\u00a0 Nothing in my Wabash experience, not even the great 7-0 game in 67, galvanized the student body the way the heist did.\u00a0 I\u2019m sorry only that I didn\u2019t save my sombrero.\u00a0 The story\u2019s been told endlessly, of course, and deservedly.\u00a0 The point really is that some moments crystallize whole experiences.\u00a0 There\u2019s a rhetorical word for that, but I can\u2019t come up with it easily.\u00a0 Whatever.\u00a0 In that one experience you have, for me at least, the spirit, camaraderie and ingenuity that was and is the Wabash experience&#8230; This uniquely \u201cloyal son\u201d has and will \u201calways love\u201d the Old Place.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beat DePauw.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WAF&#8212;-Just as I was to send this, the old gray cells fired, the synapses connected:\u00a0<i>synecdoche.<\/i>\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s the word I wanted. \u00a0There ain\u2019t many Dannies who know that word, I\u2019ll wager.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Guest post from a good\u00a0friend. &#8220;It was my Freshman year (1965), we hadn\u2019t won the bell since 1955, and then, miracle of miracles, the Bell gets swiped by an enterprising Wally [&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-4328","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\/11\/Monon-Bell-3683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","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=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}