{"id":26,"date":"2020-08-15T03:14:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T03:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/developer101\/wordpress\/?p=26"},"modified":"2020-08-28T19:01:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T19:01:40","slug":"forward-fest-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/15\/forward-fest-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Forward Fest 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forwardfest.org\/\">Forward Fest<\/a> is Wisconsin&#8217;s largest technology and entrepreneurship festival that went virtual this year due to COVID-19.  I stumbled upon an invitation to the festival in one of my social media accounts this month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have attended three events so far with a couple more planned for early next week.  The networking\/social events were better than expected. Both had attendees give short introductions.  One of the events had the larger group divide up into 4 &#8211; 5 person zoom chats with some guided discussions and questions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The value really comes from the diversity of the people attending. I was encouraged to meet many women, people of color, and a mix of ages with interests\/careers in startup businesses and technology. Looking forward to the events next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forward Fest is Wisconsin&#8217;s largest technology and entrepreneurship festival that went virtual this year due to COVID-19.  I stumbled upon an invitation to the festival in one of my social media accounts this month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/developer101.mikeweiser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}