{"id":524,"date":"2018-10-23T13:44:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2018-10-23T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:45:59","slug":"the-womens-land-army-marches-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"The Women&#8217;s Land Army Marches Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sp<a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?attachment_id=525\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-525\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-525\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Womens-Land-Army-1917-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Womens-Land-Army-1917-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Womens-Land-Army-1917.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a>eaking to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is always a treat. The audience is attentive (I guess paying to hear a lecture helps ensure that) and they ask good questions. What was unique about my recent presentation about the Women&#8217;s Land Army was that 90% of the audience were women.\u00a0 I was somewhat surprised when I asked how many people had heard of the Women&#8217;s Land Army and no one raised their hand. A number of the ladies in the audience had attended all-female colleges that supplied the &#8220;Farmerettes.&#8221; during WWI and WWII. I passed out electronic responders to the audience to use when I asked questions and also passed out about 20 demonstration type signs that had role play information that further engaged the audience in the presentation.\u00a0 We had a good time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute is always a treat. The audience is attentive (I guess paying to hear a lecture helps ensure that) and they ask good questions. What was unique about my recent presentation about the Women&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}