{"id":18243,"date":"2017-12-28T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=18243"},"modified":"2017-12-28T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T22:50:10","slug":"back-to-our-regularly-scheduled-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=18243","title":{"rendered":"Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Things that happened last month&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/38253997976\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4586\/38253997976_fd8f58f33d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had the opportunity to take <a href=\"http:\/\/cmd.wichita.edu\/certificates\/project-management-certificate\/\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">project management training at Wichita State University<\/a> from one of my favorite Rotarians. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/37561610515\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4585\/37561610515_8588762724.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We formed a team and attended sci-fi trivia night at Aero Plains. Our team name was Red Shirts. It gave us the perfect excuse to don our Star Trek costumes from a few years ago. We didn&#8217;t win but we held the top place for a couple of rounds and we had a ton of fun.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/37620013055\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4544\/37620013055_7264b2fea2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spent a Saturday afternoon with some awesome people from my work helping Child Start set up for their annual Polar Express Literacy Event. <a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=15804\" >This is our second year helping with the event<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/38712240962\/in\/datetaken\/\"  title=\"Untitled\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4526\/38712240962_df9930b65c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" alt=\"Untitled\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I finally caved and let Brian replace our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westarenergy.com\/wattsaver-program-overview\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WattSaver<\/a> thermostat with <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ChCZBx\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nest<\/a>. He took us off the program over a year ago but we kept the thermostat because it was useful. <\/p>\n<p>Brian had been begging for a <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2ChCZBx\"  rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nest<\/a> thermostat for years but I wanted to support our thermostat program at work. Anyway, we both decided it was finally time. He&#8217;s supposed to blog about his new Nest so stay tuned for that post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things that happened last month&#8230; I had the opportunity to take project management training at Wichita State University from one of my favorite Rotarians. We formed a team and attended sci-fi trivia night at Aero Plains. Our team name was Red Shirts. It gave us the perfect excuse to don our Star Trek costumes from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[2832,2136,1007,2361],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18243"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18250,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18243\/revisions\/18250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}