{"id":434,"date":"2008-10-02T15:41:50","date_gmt":"2008-10-02T14:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=434"},"modified":"2008-10-03T00:06:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-02T23:06:17","slug":"dull-but-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Dull but Necessary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\">Last night I went to our District&#39;s Executive meeting to agree our budget for the next 12 months. This was not the most exciting 2 hours I have ever spent, but it needed to be done. For an organisation to run properly and successfully, it needs effective administration.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Tonight is our Group&#39;s Executive meeting which will be a bit more enjoyable and relaxed, but no less necessary. But this time we get biscuits as well as a drink!<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">UPDATE:<\/font><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ok, perhaps the title was a wee bit mean spirited, so perhaps it should have read &#39;Meetings&#39;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Anyway, at tonight&#39;s Executive, we were pleased to welcome a new parent to the committee and we came up with some interesting ideas for the Group in the future. It was a positive meeting and we all came away having made good contributions.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">So some meetings can be dull, but necessary and others can lead to interesting discussions which result in good ideas for future activities for the Group and its continuing longevity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to our District&#39;s Executive meeting to agree our budget for the next 12 months. This was not the most exciting 2 hours I have ever spent, but it needed to be done. For an organisation to run properly and successfully, it needs effective administration. Tonight is our Group&#39;s Executive meeting which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/?p=434\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dull but Necessary!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scouts","tag-scouts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paTxP-70","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.nawbus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}