{"id":4472,"date":"2016-01-15T18:54:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4472"},"modified":"2016-01-15T18:54:48","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T18:54:48","slug":"band-of-brothers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2016\/01\/15\/band-of-brothers\/","title":{"rendered":"Band of Brothers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4473\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4473\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/arms-3513.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4473 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/arms-3513.jpg\" alt=\"arms-3513\" width=\"540\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/arms-3513.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/arms-3513-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chapel Sing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In little bite size chucks, I am getting my office in order for the transition. \u00a0After 15 years, there&#8217;s a lot of &#8220;stuff&#8221; to transition. \u00a0Part of that stuff is a collection of photos that goes back in time. \u00a0I want to take several with me before they go onto the digital darkroom &#8220;floor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This photo started out as simply a Phi Delt photo. \u00a0They are the only ones who still wear the pots. \u00a0 It works for that because one can clearly see the top of the pot and thus determine it&#8217;s a Wabash pot&#8230;and that means a Phi Delt pledge in possession.<\/p>\n<p>But then&#8230;I was struck by the sense of firmly grasping the pot&#8230;and fellow pledges. \u00a0This is &#8220;it&#8221;, the photo seems to say&#8230;and we&#8217;re in this thing together. We protect our fraternity and we protect each other.<\/p>\n<p>That brotherhood is what helps 99% of us get through Wabash. \u00a0You count on that guy standing next to you when you&#8217;re in need&#8230;and he counts on you as well.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll take this one with me&#8230;for old time&#8217;s sake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In little bite size chucks, I am getting my office in order for the transition. \u00a0After 15 years, there&#8217;s a lot of &#8220;stuff&#8221; to transition. \u00a0Part of that stuff is a collection [&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-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/arms-3513.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","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=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4474,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions\/4474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}