{"id":156,"date":"2010-08-14T23:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T23:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2010-09-01T12:16:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T17:16:12","slug":"saturday-evening-presidents-dinner-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/14\/saturday-evening-presidents-dinner-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday evening:  President&#8217;s dinner dance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/076.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-157 alignright\" title=\"076\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/076-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/076-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/076-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Tonight was the installation of the new board, Pat Johnson&#8217;s presidential address, and the formal beginning of my campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The installation concluded my service on the board, and Poh Kim Siong and I exchanged Past International Director pins.\u00a0 Pat&#8217;s address gave a review of how she got involved in Toastmasters and how we can all contribute.<\/p>\n<p>The moment that Jana gaveled the convention to a close was when my work began, though.\u00a0 That was the signal that candidates could begin their campaign in earnest in the hall outside the ballroom, as people left.<\/p>\n<p>I brought 2,500 cards to the convention, and I think I must have given out 1,800 of them.\u00a0 I received so many comments like &#8220;I thought you would run, and I&#8217;m so glad you are!&#8221;, it was great!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0946.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-162 alignright\" title=\"IMG_0946\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0946-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0946-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/IMG_0946-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I couldn&#8217;t have made it through without my campaign team, most especially my campaign manager, PID Joan Diehl, and Joe Esler.\u00a0 This was my last opportunity to meet most of these people face-to-face until the next convention in August, 2011.\u00a0 The dancing didn&#8217;t stop until 1 AM, and I stayed to make sure I had a chance to meet every single person there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight was the installation of the new board, Pat Johnson&#8217;s presidential address, and the formal beginning of my campaign. The installation concluded my service on the board, and Poh Kim Siong and I exchanged Past International Director pins.\u00a0 Pat&#8217;s address gave a review of how she got involved in Toastmasters and how we can all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[59,52,57,58,53,60],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2vp-campaign","category-international-convention","tag-announcement","tag-board","tag-campaign","tag-cards","tag-convention","tag-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","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=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}