{"id":14664,"date":"2015-02-01T00:48:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-01T04:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=14664"},"modified":"2015-02-01T00:48:49","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T04:48:49","slug":"saturday-night-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/02\/01\/saturday-night-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; retreat !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking forward to this for several weeks.. this morning was the Generator Board retreat. We all met at Burlington City Arts for a half day of facilitated soul searching: who are we , how far have we come, where are we going.. standard\u00a0 board stuff.<\/p>\n<p>I coul dhave swarn they said it was a SPa day.. but I was the only one who showed up in my jammies.. Geeeez !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1951.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1958.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I really love the folks on this board. They are so dedicated and energetic<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1960.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1962.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>. It really did feel good to think how far we&#8217;ve gotten in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>It was fun to think back to our humble beginnings<\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s our first setup day<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/83401926\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/83401926\">generator setup<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user10217959\">john cohn<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>and here was our opening a month or so later. In march..<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/90484158\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/90484158\">fastgenopen2<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user10217959\">john cohn<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We did lots of thinking of where we want to go with generator.. now that it&#8217;s up and running well.. there was lots of passion, energy and good intentions. Those give me confidence that we will find our way to awesomeness.. I personally believe that much of that direction will come from\u00a0 combination of our board thoughts, the members and the community.. I feel there&#8217;s will be\u00a0 lots of fun trial\u00a0 and error. along\u00a0 the\u00a0 way and I welcome both -)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1963.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/IMG_1964.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m proud to be part of this orginization.. and look forward to traveling with it as it evolves. I want to publiclly thank the other mmebers of the board, our leaders, members, staff and our fascilitator today , Paul,.. for helping us move along the way !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ps. Heres an awesome video that someone shot of the lights we did at ECHO under freind Travis&#8217;s leadership. .. these are a little showy.. but it&#8217;s fun to see what it can do.. goign forward, we&#8217;re tuning it down to do some fun interactive stuff.. and help interpret data from the lake.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4GfQKJxmOGA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d been looking forward to this for several weeks.. this morning was the Generator Board retreat. We all met at Burlington City Arts for a half day of facilitated soul searching: who are we , how far have we come, where are we going.. standard\u00a0 board stuff. I coul dhave swarn they said it was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/02\/01\/saturday-night-retreat\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; retreat !<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1052],"class_list":["post-14664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-retreat"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14686,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14664\/revisions\/14686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}