{"id":147,"date":"2010-08-12T13:15:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:24:37","slug":"thursday-morning-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/thursday-morning-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday morning:  Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0904.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-164 alignright\" title=\"IMG_0904\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0904-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0904-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0904-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>The Hall of Fame is always a fantastic celebration of our achievements over the last year, the energy is so up and enthusiastic!\u00a0 Every distinguished district brings their whole convention delegation up on stage for the awards!<\/p>\n<p>I was privileged to be the very first announcer (photo below), reading off the Presidential Citations, and there were only NINE this year, compared to the usual 20-30 or so.\u00a0 And two of them were for people from Region V, Michael Smith and Justin Gottfried.<\/p>\n<p>Two of the Region V districts (where I&#8217;m from) were Select Distinguished, D43 (James Mayhan) and D8 (Dori Drummond), and three more were Distinguished (D30-Michael Gougis, D35-Kathleen Wesselink, and D63-Allan Daniels), which ties our best-ever number of distinguished districts (5 of 8).<\/p>\n<p>Truly amazing &#8212; this is the event that district leaders worked for all year long, and they deserve it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hall of Fame is always a fantastic celebration of our achievements over the last year, the energy is so up and enthusiastic!\u00a0 Every distinguished district brings their whole convention delegation up on stage for the awards! I was privileged to be the very first announcer (photo below), reading off the Presidential Citations, and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,64,16,66],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-convention","tag-convention","tag-distinguished","tag-district","tag-hall-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}