{"id":1557,"date":"2017-10-23T12:08:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T17:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/?p=1557"},"modified":"2018-11-13T12:40:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T18:40:49","slug":"homecoming-2017-back-to-college-classes-wayne-messmer-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2017\/10\/23\/homecoming-2017-back-to-college-classes-wayne-messmer-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Homecoming 2017: Back to College Classes \u2013 Wayne Messmer &#8217;72"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Messmer &#8217;72\u00a0shared his story of being a blue-collar kid on the Chicago South Side, transformed into an Illinois Wesleyan alumni success as a professional speaker, singer, broadcaster, author and actor. He shared his story of sudden, unexpected change which nearly cost him his life and his voice. Through that experience, Wayne learned what it takes to come out on the other side of change and trauma to help others do the same and realize the true spirit of a Champion. His presentation, entitled &#8220;From Wesleyan to the World Series&#8221;, may be viewed below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/238845406?color=006633&amp;title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/238845406\">Wayne Messmer &#8211; From Wesleyan to the World Series<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/iwu\">IWU Video<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Messmer &#8217;72\u00a0shared his story of being a blue-collar kid on the Chicago South Side, transformed into an Illinois Wesleyan alumni success as a professional speaker, singer, broadcaster, author and actor. He shared his story of sudden, unexpected change which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/2017\/10\/23\/homecoming-2017-back-to-college-classes-wayne-messmer-72\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":296,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/296"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1557"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1855,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1557\/revisions\/1855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1970sclassnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}