{"id":983,"date":"2021-04-08T15:05:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/?p=983"},"modified":"2021-04-08T15:05:31","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T14:05:31","slug":"season-xvii-alphaday-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/season-xvii-alphaday-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Season XVII &#8211; Alphaday 11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi Alphas,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to Alphaday 11, Season XVII. We\u2019ve still got a full menu for you to enjoy. Then we\u2019ll close down the various departments and prepare for our annual break while getting ready for Season XVIII. We\u2019ll have our annual survey where you can let us know how you\u2019d run this group if you were in charge. We\u2019re probably one of the longest-running groups around; seventeen years under the belt and still going strong. That\u2019s quite an achievement for a writers\u2019 group that started as a one-year experiment. I believe that our success is due to the active involvement of all our members \u2013 as today\u2019s agenda seems to prove:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alphaday 11, Season XVII agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This bulletin from me<\/li><li>The results and feedback for the photo challenge from Stephen<\/li><li>The collated entries for the quotation challenge from Elke<\/li><li>Call for entries for The Open Page, 3<sup>rd<\/sup> edition, from Christine<\/li><li>A Writers\u2019 Reads prompt from Sarah<\/li><li>Call for contributions for Alpha Log 6 from Phil<\/li><li>Invitation to join an Alpha Zoom session tonight from Ros<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s quite an agenda, I\u2019d say, and there\u2019s the icing on the cake in the last item where we can meet up face to face in this virtual world that we\u2019re beginning to get used to. The great thing is that there\u2019s something for and from everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ll keep the <strong>Alpha News <\/strong>for tonight\u2019s zoom meeting when we can discuss both private, general and Alpha matters as we feel like it. It\u2019s lovely to see people in this informal way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General news <\/strong>is thin on the ground because the world is still absorbed in the one catastrophe that\u2019s hit us and which seeps into all aspects of our civilisation, covering everything with a damp blanket. Online events are replacing live events \u2013 no need to travel and no worries about parking or finding loos. Outside activities are often solitary and limited to the excitement of watching spring unfolding in the forest or the park. Well worth making the occasional trip outside your four walls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Alphas, Welcome to Alphaday 11, Season XVII. We\u2019ve still got a full menu for you to enjoy. Then we\u2019ll close down the various departments and prepare for our annual break while&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alphaday-bulletins","tag-alphaday-bulletins-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphawriters.net\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}