{"id":3415,"date":"2021-07-08T01:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T06:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=3415"},"modified":"2021-05-29T07:18:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:18:27","slug":"meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2021\/07\/meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Meetings&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I love meetings. They are fun. At least the meetings I attend. Why attend any other kind?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are many types of gatherings that we call &#8220;meetings.&#8221; That is a disservice to the English language and to the &#8220;meeting.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My little work group has a daily &#8220;meeting.&#8221; I love it. I laugh and laugh and laugh. It is great fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s not a meeting, that&#8217;s a, well, it must be something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A friend used to hold a meeting every morning at work. He served fresh-baked biscuits, ham, sausage, bacon, eggs, and grits at these daily meetings. His crew loved the meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Oh, that&#8217;s not a meeting, that&#8217;s a, well, it must be something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We could go on with examples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meetings? If you hate them, if they are a waste of time, why are you doing them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, have those meetings that must be something else. The kind of &#8220;meetings&#8221; that people love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips I love meetings. They are fun. At least the meetings I attend. Why attend any other kind? There are many types of gatherings that we call &#8220;meetings.&#8221; That is a disservice to the English language and to the &#8220;meeting.&#8221; My little work group has a daily &#8220;meeting.&#8221; I love it. I laugh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,32,71,25,67],"tags":[173,154,191,147,187],"class_list":["post-3415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-choose","category-communication","category-fun","category-meetings","category-work","tag-choose","tag-communication","tag-fun","tag-meetings","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3416,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3415\/revisions\/3416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}