{"id":4506,"date":"2016-01-29T07:16:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T07:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=4506"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T16:17:07","slug":"chadwick-court-a-special-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2016\/01\/29\/chadwick-court-a-special-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Chadwick Court &#8211; A Special Place"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4507\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4507\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9893.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4507\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4507\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9893.jpg\" alt=\"Game Ball Presentation \" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9893.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9893-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4507\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Game Ball Presentation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This game ball presentation took place last Saturday before the Oberlin-Wabash basketball game. \u00a0This young man and young lady did the honors. \u00a0Most of the fans were on their feet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9900.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4508\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4508\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9900.jpg\" alt=\"Special Olympics-9900\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9900.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/Special-Olympics-9900-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a special moment at mid-court.<\/p>\n<p>As I reviewed the photos afterwards (the usual &#8220;should have done this&#8230;shouldn&#8217;t have done that&#8221;), I was struck by the two Oberlin players in the background. \u00a0They never stopped clapping&#8230;never.<\/p>\n<p>At halftime, two local Special Olympics teams played a game. \u00a0Our Sphinx Club led the cheers and the fans were into the game.<\/p>\n<p>I often refer to Wabash as &#8220;this good place&#8221;, a line I took from a Bill Cook Chapel Talk, as I recall. \u00a0On this Saturday afternoon, I amended it to &#8220;this good and <em>special<\/em> place.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This game ball presentation took place last Saturday before the Oberlin-Wabash basketball game. \u00a0This young man and young lady did the honors. \u00a0Most of the fans were on their feet. It was [&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-4506","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\/Special-Olympics-9893.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506","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=4506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4511,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4506\/revisions\/4511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}