{"id":756,"date":"2012-05-31T12:19:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=756"},"modified":"2012-05-31T12:19:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T12:19:23","slug":"the-gordon-peters-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/05\/31\/the-gordon-peters-bench\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gordon Peters Bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_757\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-757\" style=\"width: 480px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0104.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-757\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0104.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0104.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0104-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-757\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Gordon Peters Bench<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stroll straight north of Detchon Center (Yandes Hall) and you&#8217;ll now encounter &#8220;The Peters Family&#8221; bench. \u00a0It&#8217;s positioned to take maximum advantage of a view of the Arboretum.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Peters &#8217;52 was an important member of the Wabash community for many, many years. \u00a0He was crucial in the efforts to renovate the Phi Psi House and played a big role in the Class of 1952 reunion gift for their 50th.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon&#8217;s family wanted to offer a similar insight into the beauty of Wabash and funded this bench for all to use and enjoy. \u00a0Bet we&#8217;ll see some of those 1952 guys, back for their 60th reunion this weekend, enjoining the view.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0103.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-758\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0103.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/05\/peters-bench-0103-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stroll straight north of Detchon Center (Yandes Hall) and you&#8217;ll now encounter &#8220;The Peters Family&#8221; bench. \u00a0It&#8217;s positioned to take maximum advantage of a view of the Arboretum. Gordon Peters &#8217;52 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-756","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\/05\/peters-bench-0104.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}