{"id":420,"date":"2013-10-15T15:12:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=420"},"modified":"2013-10-15T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T20:15:13","slug":"attending-receptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/10\/15\/attending-receptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Attending Receptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A big component of a dean&#8217;s life is attending meetings. For the most part I enjoy them, especially ones that have an agenda and are efficiently conducted. (I&#8217;m writing this post in an extra 30-minute block I have today when a meeting ended early!) Last week, however, for the first time I attended a type of meeting I don&#8217;t like so much: a reception for visiting guests where you mingle in a small space with a plate of finger food, having short conversations with folks (mostly people you already know as usually there is a throng around the guests). I was actually supposed to go to two receptions last week, but was excused from the other one due to personnel problems that required an immediate response. Hhhmmm, maybe I should stockpile other personnel issues to be dealt with when other receptions are scheduled?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A big component of a dean&#8217;s life is attending meetings. For the most part I enjoy them, especially ones that have an agenda and are efficiently conducted. (I&#8217;m writing this post in an extra 30-minute block I have today when a meeting ended early!) Last week, however, for the first time I attended a type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22222],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-academic-administration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}