{"id":2819,"date":"2005-04-25T17:20:15","date_gmt":"2005-04-25T22:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/04\/25\/one-ring-to-rool-um-rule-yall\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T12:14:52","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T17:14:52","slug":"one-ring-to-rool-um-rule-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/04\/25\/one-ring-to-rool-um-rule-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"One Ring to Rool, um, Rule Ya’ll"},"content":{"rendered":"

“I definitely would rather have my ring than my diploma,” confirms Ana Mena, a 24-year-old senior from El Paso waiting with her boyfriend, Chris Jenkins, 24.<\/p>\n

She’s not talking about an engagement ring; she’s referring to her Aggie ring, and her sentiment is shared by just about everyone who lasted long enough at Texas A&M University to earn one.
\n\"PhotoThe quote above is from an article in today’s Houston Chronicle<\/em> (hat tip to the Lone Star Times<\/em>, snarky comment and all) describing the pomp, ceremony and occasional beer drinking that goes along with the Awarding Of The Rings in College Station.<\/p>\n

I’m quite proud of my Aggie ring, although I’m one of the few grads who doesn’t usually wear it. Apart from my wedding band, I wear only one other ring, which was also a gift from MLB<\/acronym>. But that doesn’t mean that I don’t cherish my class ring, as well as the experiences that led up to getting it way back when dirt was new.<\/p>\n

My dad, on the other hand, hasn’t removed his<\/em> Aggie ring since, oh, about 1949, when he graduated. It’s been worn slick over the years and you have to know what it is to recognize it…but it’s amazing how many people (ie. other Aggies) have an eye for that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

We take a lot of flak about a lot of things related to A&M, and much of it is well-deserved, I suppose. But it’s no bull when people say that an Aggie ring has a networking value far in excess of its rather hefty weight in gold.<\/p>\n

Yeah, that photo is my<\/em> ring!<\/span><\/p>\n

Technorati tag: Texas A&M<\/a> | Aggie Ring<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A tribute to the fabled Aggie Ring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14241,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2819\/revisions\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}