{"id":637,"date":"2012-04-06T12:31:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=637"},"modified":"2012-04-06T12:31:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T12:31:35","slug":"the-last-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/04\/06\/the-last-day\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Day?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_638\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-638\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/04\/lilly-15745.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-638\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/04\/lilly-15745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/04\/lilly-15745.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/04\/lilly-15745-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-638\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Welcome to Wabash College<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stopped by the corner of Wabash and Grant this morning. \u00a0Temperature hit 35 degrees last night&#8230;may be colder tonight. \u00a0Thought I should get a couple of shots because it may not be so nice tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>And that got me to thinking&#8230;in a poor, dumb fighter pilot sort of warped logic&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What changes when the flowers are no longer &#8220;flowering&#8221;? \u00a0The corner isn&#8217;t so beautiful but there&#8217;s plenty of beauty here. \u00a0Then you could go further and ask yourself about the corner and is it the icing on the cake or merely a sprinkle or two? \u00a0Or even that? \u00a0Or, you could start way back there and work to define beauty. \u00a0Then real beauty. \u00a0Then true beauty. \u00a0Makes an old guy&#8217;s cranium swim.<\/p>\n<p>Then it all comes back to the quote I use way too often from my friend Bill Cook &#8217;66: &#8220;This \u00a0 good \u00a0 place&#8221;. \u00a0Good means good&#8230;but it leaves us the opportunity to take good to better. \u00a0We wouldn&#8217;t be here if we weren&#8217;t interested in that.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter\/Passover from the Grunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stopped by the corner of Wabash and Grant this morning. \u00a0Temperature hit 35 degrees last night&#8230;may be colder tonight. \u00a0Thought I should get a couple of shots because it may not 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-637","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\/04\/lilly-15745.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","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=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}