{"id":19111,"date":"2016-09-23T08:31:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/?p=19111"},"modified":"2016-09-23T08:37:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T13:37:42","slug":"bearsofbaylor-i-miss-it-you-take-it-for-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2016\/09\/bearsofbaylor-i-miss-it-you-take-it-for-granted\/","title":{"rendered":"#BearsOfBaylor &#8212; &#8220;I miss it. You take it for granted&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s Austin&#8217;s\u00a0official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/alumni\/network\/index.php?id=925827\">Baylor Watch Party<\/a>! &#8230; We all work at General Motors. He initiated it and let us all know about it. So, it\u2019s kind of like our break from work, too, to come here and watch the Bears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a ton of Baylor grads working at General Motors!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re all different graduating classes, but we\u2019re here for sure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s super-nostalgic, because I\u2019ve been away from Waco now &#8212; it\u2019s September, so, nine months. To go back and be on the other side, an alumna walking the campus, it just makes you &#8212; I miss it. You take it for granted. People tell you, when you\u2019re in college, &#8216;Slow down, enjoy it. You\u2019re gonna miss it.&#8217; and it\u2019s like, &#8216;No! I\u2019m ready to graduate. I want to work. I want to go. I\u2019m ready to be back in Austin and do all these things.&#8217; And, now, it\u2019s like, I literally just told him that &#8216;I miss Waco.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19112\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bob-austin-sept16.jpg\" alt=\"#BearsOfBaylor\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bob-austin-sept16.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bob-austin-sept16-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bob-austin-sept16-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/bob-austin-sept16-1024x718.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>[Every Baylor Bear has a story; #BearsOfBaylor brings those stories to you, one by one. These stories, these people&#8230; This is our Baylor.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It\u2019s Austin&#8217;s\u00a0official Baylor Watch Party! &#8230; We all work at General Motors. He initiated it and let us all know about it. So, it\u2019s kind of like our break from work, too, to come here and watch the Bears.&#8221; &#8220;There are a ton of Baylor grads working at General Motors!&#8221; &#8220;We\u2019re all different graduating classes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bearsofbaylor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}