{"id":2271,"date":"2011-02-22T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/?p=2271"},"modified":"2011-02-18T21:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T02:06:56","slug":"but-for-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/but-for-ohio-state\/","title":{"rendered":"But For Ohio State&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HYhIhttrPd0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HYhIhttrPd0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>My alma mater is The Ohio State University.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a life member of the alumni association.\u00a0 And, like many other alums, I&#8217;m on a lot of the university&#8217;s mailing lists.<\/p>\n<p>On February 16, 2011, I (along with other Alumni, students, faculty, and staff) received an email from Ohio State University\u00a0 president E. Gordon Gee.<\/p>\n<p>The email contained a jaw-dropping announcement!\u00a0 A 100 million dollar gift to The Ohio State University from Les Wexner, founder of The Limited. It&#8217;s the largest philanthropic gift in university history.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Gee correctly characterized this 100 million dollar gift as &#8220;a transformative moment in the history of this university.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It was a wonderful day for the university and buckeyes everywhere.\u00a0 You can read more about it <a title=\"But for Ohio State...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.osu.edu\/features\/2011\/butforohiostate\" target=\"_blank\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you , Mr.\u00a0 Wexner.\u00a0 God bless you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My alma mater is The Ohio State University.\u00a0 I&#8217;m a life member of the alumni association.\u00a0 And, like many other alums, I&#8217;m on a lot of the university&#8217;s mailing lists. On February 16, 2011, I (along with other Alumni, students, faculty, and staff) received an email from Ohio State University\u00a0 president E. Gordon Gee. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[151,152,6],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-e-gordon-gee","tag-les-wexner","tag-ohio-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgetoon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}