{"id":519,"date":"2009-12-18T01:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/18\/i-wish-all-meetings-could-be-like-my-last-one\/"},"modified":"2009-12-18T01:23:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-18T01:23:00","slug":"i-wish-all-meetings-could-be-like-my-last-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/18\/i-wish-all-meetings-could-be-like-my-last-one\/","title":{"rendered":"I wish all meetings could be like my last one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><i>Purpose of meeting: to discuss the format and content of a progress report, due on December 30th<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I arrived a few minutes late as the elevators were all messed up and I don&#8217;t have access to the stairs in that building.&nbsp;BUT I was still the first one there.<\/li>\n<li>The next two people to show up were happy to talk about turduckens and Christmas geese instead of project milestones.<\/li>\n<li>Then we had a very satisfying argument about the Copenhagen talks.<\/li>\n<li>Then the PI showed up and announced that he&#8217;d just taken another look at the dates covered by the report, and the dates of all project milestones.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;font-weight: bold\">Conclusion of meeting: no report needed<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So we all sat around and compared holiday plans, and talked about skiing.<\/li>\n<li>Then the receptionist gave me some gingerbread on my way out.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose of meeting: to discuss the format and content of a progress report, due on December 30th. I arrived a few minutes late as the elevators were all messed up and I don&#8217;t have access to the stairs in that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2009\/12\/18\/i-wish-all-meetings-could-be-like-my-last-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-career","category-food-glorious-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}