{"id":4271,"date":"2012-04-28T23:19:35","date_gmt":"2012-04-28T15:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4271"},"modified":"2012-04-29T00:12:13","modified_gmt":"2012-04-28T16:12:13","slug":"april-monthly-gathering-and-future-monthly-gatherings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4271","title":{"rendered":"April monthly gathering and future monthly gatherings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Dear members,<\/p>\n<p>We are having difficulties getting members to run as EOs for the monthly gathering. &nbsp;Juding from survey recently, the feedback indicates that most members would participate in the gatherings, if the activity or agenda is interesting. &nbsp;But, at the same time, very few put up their hand to take the lead to do the monthly gatherings.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps, the time has come for the fixed regular monthly gatherings to be disbanded; and leave any monthly gathering to the initiatives of members. &nbsp;When SHC was conceived, the platform to provide opportunities for SilverHairs to meet new friends was based on &quot;<strong><font color=\"#000099\" style=\"\">Every one member has to organise one activity during the life of his\/her membership<\/font><\/strong>&quot;. &nbsp;However, this concept is difficult to follow through. &nbsp;In fact, our feedback indicates that many members prefer to wait for someone else to organise activities, and they will participate only after all the hardwork has been done by the EOs\/ECs.<\/p>\n<p>Are we expecting too much from EOs? &nbsp;Or should we relook at the concept and start looking at paying Event Organisers? &nbsp;Maybe, this is another out of the box thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Terence Seah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear members, We are having difficulties getting members to run as EOs for the monthly gathering. &nbsp;Juding from survey recently, the feedback indicates that most members would participate in the gatherings, if the activity or agenda is interesting. &nbsp;But, at the same time, very few put up their hand to take the lead to do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4271\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;April monthly gathering and future monthly gatherings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shc-monthly-gatherings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}