{"id":487,"date":"2012-02-16T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=487"},"modified":"2012-02-16T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T16:09:49","slug":"special-isnt-special-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/02\/16\/special-isnt-special-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Special&#8221; Isn&#8217;t Special Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_488\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-3850.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-488\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-3850.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-3850.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-3850-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Presenting the Game Ball<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Montgomery County Special Olympians stole the show last night and that was tough to do considering Ohio Wesleyan beat the Little Giants by one point in double overtime. \u00a0But they did&#8230;and the crowd gave them the Standing Ovation!<\/p>\n<p>In the picture above, an Olympian delivered the game ball. \u00a0It was a proud moment.<\/p>\n<p>Below, you can see another Olympian get a High 5 from his coach.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_489\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-489\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-4076.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-489\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-4076.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-4076.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-4076-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-489\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oh Yeah!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sports are, in a sense, a great equalizer. \u00a0Regardless of your skill level, they are equally enjoyable. \u00a0In the same vein, an all out effort, at any level, is <strong>sincerely<\/strong> appreciated by those with the opportunity to enjoy watching. \u00a0It certainly was last night.<\/p>\n<p>I drove home smiling. \u00a0Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I hated to see us lose to OWU (they have a great team.) \u00a0Our guys just came up one point short. \u00a0But the smile came from something much bigger in the grand scheme of things.<\/p>\n<p>A special smile maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montgomery County Special Olympians stole the show last night and that was tough to do considering Ohio Wesleyan beat the Little Giants by one point in double overtime. \u00a0But they did&#8230;and the [&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-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/02\/special-3850.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","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=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}