{"id":1139,"date":"2020-03-10T19:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T19:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2020-03-11T00:15:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T00:15:24","slug":"coa-annual-meeting-2020-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/coa-annual-meeting-2020-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"COA Annual Meeting 2020 Cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>The COA Annual Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2020 has been cancelled.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middlesex Community College has withdrawn its invitation to us to hold our meeting at their hall. This is in keeping with the current recommendations restricting the size of any gathering of people in one location to &lt; 100 individuals in an effort to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. \u00a0We accept and respect their decision and applaud their choice of human health and safety over other concerns.\u00a0 \u00a0We will be contacting all birders who have registered for the meeting by email and will refund their money.\u00a0 There may be the option for birders to leave their registration fee in place, in which case we will hold it for them for next year\u2019s meeting (which, of course, we hope to hold without incident).\u00a0 Thank you all for your understanding and cooperation in this unfortunate turn of events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1140 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02047-2-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02047-2-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02047-2-768x571.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC02047-2-1024x761.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/223;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Gull Workshop for Sunday, March 22, is expected to go on as planned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The COA Annual Meeting, scheduled for Saturday, March 21, 2020 has been cancelled. Middlesex Community College has withdrawn its invitation to us to hold our meeting at their hall. This is in keeping with the current recommendations restricting the size of any gathering of people in one location to &lt; 100 individuals in an effort &#8230; <a title=\"COA Annual Meeting 2020 Cancelled\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/coa-annual-meeting-2020-cancelled\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about COA Annual Meeting 2020 Cancelled\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_crdt_document":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1148,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctbirding.org\/testsite1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}