{"id":887,"date":"2012-07-17T07:49:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T07:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/?p=887"},"modified":"2012-07-17T07:49:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T07:49:07","slug":"scotland-ben-nevis-and-the-crowley-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/2012\/07\/17\/scotland-ben-nevis-and-the-crowley-boys\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland&#8230;Ben Nevis..and the Crowley Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/ben-nevis.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-888\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/ben-nevis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/ben-nevis.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/ben-nevis-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a>Ben Nevis is the tallest peak in the United Kingdom. \u00a04,409 feet above sea level. \u00a0(Yes, the Grunge could find it on the F-111 radar!)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-889\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/crowley.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/crowley.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/crowley.jpg 540w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/07\/crowley-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlie Crowley &#039;70<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ben Nevis became the location of choice recently for a Crowley family get-together. \u00a0Here it is in Charlie Crowley&#8217;s (Class of 1970) own words: <em>&#8220;Last week I was visiting with my brother Steve (\u201972) and his family in Scotland.\u00a0 The trip was in part a rite of passage for his son, BenNevis Whitman Crowley, named after the highest point in the UK, Ben Nevis.\u00a0 Four of us took the time to climb the mountain.\u00a0 Of course no summit picture would be complete without a photo of the Wabash flag wife Mary made for me 30 years ago.\u00a0 It\u2019s always in the pack ready for a photo op.\u00a0 The guidebook said \u201cfrom the summit you can see for 175 miles.\u201d\u00a0 That must have been on one of the other days of the week.\u00a0 In hindsight, visual marketing of the College is not as effective in the middle of a cloud!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Charlie &#8211; those clouds are what the blokes call &#8220;liquid sunshine!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Nevis is the tallest peak in the United Kingdom. \u00a04,409 feet above sea level. \u00a0(Yes, the Grunge could find it on the F-111 radar!) Ben Nevis became the location of choice [&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-887","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\/07\/ben-nevis.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","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=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/thegrunge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}