{"id":1725,"date":"2009-12-21T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1725"},"modified":"2009-12-23T19:50:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-24T02:50:28","slug":"2009-in-review-new-involvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1725","title":{"rendered":"2009 In Review: New Involvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1726\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?attachment_id=1726\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?fit=221%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"221,221\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"riemblem_color_small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?fit=221%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?fit=221%2C221&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1726\" title=\"riemblem_color_small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.rnsmith.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/riemblem_color_small.gif?w=221&amp;ssl=1 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The Rotary Club that I belong to was able to reach the first important milestone this year &#8230; enough members to be chartered. The chartering ceremony was fun and it&#8217;s quite exciting to be part of this organization.<\/p>\n<p>Rotary is a service organization involved in doing things for the community as well as around the world.<\/p>\n<p>My role in our Pocatello Portneuf Rotary Club is to arrange for our weekly programs. Over the past year we&#8217;ve been able to have a number of very interesting programs and through that, I&#8217;ve been able to meet a lot of important people in the community. The day after the election in November (when the incumbent mayor was defeated) I was able to sign up the mayor elect to be on our program in December, which proved to be one of the most popular programs of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Ta ta for now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rotary Club that I belong to was able to reach the first important milestone this year &#8230; enough members to be chartered. The chartering ceremony was fun and it&#8217;s quite exciting to be part of this organization. Rotary is a service organization involved in doing things for the community as well as around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/?p=1725\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2009 In Review: New Involvement<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnKxs-rP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rnsmith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}