{"id":225,"date":"2014-09-14T16:07:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T21:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lnbeta09.com\/alanjennings\/?page_id=225"},"modified":"2018-12-17T01:57:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:57:39","slug":"smitten-with-the-secretarys-soft-smile","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/?page_id=225","title":{"rendered":"Smitten by a smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u2014 C. Alan Jennings<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WIN_20180205_11_44_38_Pro-e1523148496229.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-332\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WIN_20180205_11_44_38_Pro-e1523148496229-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WIN_20180205_11_44_38_Pro-e1523148496229-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/WIN_20180205_11_44_38_Pro-e1523148496229.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a>My interest in parliamentary procedure began when\u00a0I was in the fifth grade. Being smitten with the soft smile of the prettiest girl in the class as she sat at the front of the room serving as secretary for the class meetings,\u00a0I learned all\u00a0I could about minutes so\u00a0I could offer to help her.\u00a0 She, however, had eyes only for the class president.\u00a0 I had no use for Robert&#8217;s Rules again until 1989 when\u00a0I\u00a0found myself elected as a board chairman.\u00a0 I was lucky\u00a0to be able to get the prettiest girl I knew at that time to serve as the board&#8217;s secretary.\u00a0She knew not only how to take good minutes, but also how to aim her soft smile at her husband, the board chairman, teaching him how to keep the meetings short.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"C. Alan Jennings\" href=\"http:\/\/alanjennings.com\/?page_id=68\">&lt; Back<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014 C. Alan Jennings My interest in parliamentary procedure began when\u00a0I was in the fifth grade. Being smitten with the soft smile of the prettiest girl in the class as she sat at the front of the room serving as secretary for the class meetings,\u00a0I learned all\u00a0I could about minutes so\u00a0I could offer to help&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/455"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alanjennings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}