{"id":2144,"date":"2011-04-30T10:23:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2011-04-30T10:24:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T14:24:47","slug":"meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/cf0517-water-supply-meeting.jpg\" alt=\"water supply plan 2005\"><br \/>\nFor the first 45 years of my life I successfully avoided going to meetings except in a my professional capacity as a newspaper photographer. I was too busy living, raking leaves, raising children, paying bills, working\u2026 Meetings were for other people.<br \/>\nI imagine that meetings once upon a time were fun. A smoke filled room, a trough, a bunch of white guys cutting up the pie.<br \/>\nMeetings in the 21st Century have a different form. They feature a public process. Pieces of paper where the public can leave their e-mail addresses. Pieces of paper where the public can write down their thoughts. Public hearings!<br \/>\nI wonder where all those pieces of paper go?<br \/>\nMeeting above was 2\/17\/05, featured a facilitator and pieces of paper, water supply plan. Meeting below, CHO NDS, pieces of paper.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/K452E1-NDS-MEETING.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first 45 years of my life I successfully avoided going to meetings except in a my professional capacity as a newspaper photographer. I was too busy living, raking leaves, raising children, paying bills, working\u2026 Meetings were for other people. I imagine that meetings once upon a time were fun. A smoke filled room, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/meetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;meetings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[34,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-meetings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2149,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/2149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}