{"id":17,"date":"2009-11-23T18:53:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T02:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/media.davebaar.com\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2009-11-23T18:53:12","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T02:53:12","slug":"on-community-and-communties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/23\/on-community-and-communties\/","title":{"rendered":"On Community and Communties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After that last post about trash, it&#8217;s time for a more positive one.\u00a0 One of the things I&#8217;ve gotten a lot out of thus far in life, without really intending to,\u00a0 is being a participant in\u00a0 some very interesting and somewhat diverse communities.\u00a0 That includes a number of recreational groups, such as the windsurfing, climbing, and photography communities, as well as in my working world of computing, Physics, and entrepreneurship. On the recreational front, I&#8217;ll always treasure those days spent with my co-founders of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.geocities.com\/kingstonboardsailing\/mainx.htm\">Kingston Boardsailing Association<\/a> (hi to Brian, Evan, Denise, Phil, Ruth, John, Cathy, and all the rest of you), especially on those windy days on Lake Ontario.\u00a0 It&#8217;s great to see after 20 years that the good old KBA is still sailing along!\u00a0 I did a short but rewarding stint as a director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/jsca.bc.ca\/\">Jericho Sailing Centre Association<\/a>, and I wish I had more time to be involved in the rock climbing community, which is a particularly diverse and interesting one. The Physics community is a particularly international one, at least through my own experiences, and took me to many places in North America plus a very rewarding period in Japan.<!--more--><br \/>\nPart of the point of this post is to say thanks and &#8220;hi&#8221; to all of the people who&#8217;ve been part of those communities with me so far, but I&#8217;m also very interested in any comments on this slightly sentimental post.\u00a0 I think these communities simply make the world a better place and I hope to be more involved in them and other communities in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After that last post about trash, it&#8217;s time for a more positive one.\u00a0 One of the things I&#8217;ve gotten a lot out of thus far in life, without really intending to,\u00a0 is being a participant in\u00a0 some very interesting and somewhat diverse communities.\u00a0 That includes a number of recreational groups, such as the windsurfing, climbing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebaar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}