{"id":6568,"date":"2013-02-28T15:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/?p=6568"},"modified":"2013-02-28T15:23:09","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T15:23:09","slug":"how-i-feel-about-group-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/how-i-feel-about-group-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"How I feel about group meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We often have full group meetings, but there are so many of us and such a range of backgrounds and topics that they invariably waste the time of more than 80% of the people who (must!) attend them. Sometimes, I think about a snippet from the Muppets Christmas Carol, where Fozzywig is giving his traditional Christmas speech to the whole company:<\/p>\n<p>Jacob\/Statler: That was the speech?<br \/>\nRobert Marley\/Waldorf: It was dumb!<br \/>\nJacob\/Statler: It was obvious!<br \/>\nRobert\/Waldorf: It was pointless!<br \/>\nJacob\/Statler: It was&#8230;short.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMarleys: I loved it! <\/p>\n<p>Sadly, most of the ones I have to attend are anything but short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We often have full group meetings, but there are so many of us and such a range of backgrounds and topics that they invariably waste the time of more than 80% of the people who (must!) attend them. Sometimes, I think about a snippet from the Muppets Christmas Carol, where Fozzywig is giving his traditional&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/how-i-feel-about-group-meetings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;How I feel about group meetings&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-1HW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6568\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}