{"id":8726,"date":"2009-05-01T19:39:40","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:39:40","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-01T19:39:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T19:39:40","slug":"thank-you-to-those-who-attended-the-democratic-gain-happy-hour-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/01\/thank-you-to-those-who-attended-the-democratic-gain-happy-hour-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you to those who attended the Democratic GAIN Happy Hour last week!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a quick update from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticgain.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Democratic GAIN web site\">Democratic GAIN<\/a> Happy Hour in L.A. last Thursday.&nbsp; Thank you to all Calitics readers who came out! Tom Eisenhauer sent this, which is cross posted at the GAIN blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticgain.org\/members\/blog_view.asp?id=241803\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GAINing Ground Blog\">GAINing Ground:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  About 100 people enjoyed the food &#8211; Cole&#39;s says they&#39;re the &#8220;originators of the French Dip&#8221; &#8211; and the chance to mix and mingle with a diverse crowd that included progressive advocates, campaigns, consultants and government officials. The diversity of the crowd was apparent, and folks got to meet other progressives &#8211; from interns to officeholders &#8211; whom they wouldn&#39;t have seen anywhere else.  (If I&#39;d remembered to take a photo, you could see what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>   Special thanks to our long list of hosts (see below) who made this event possible &#8211; and in particular to Sarah Leonard and Ellie Wallace of the Glover Park Group, who did the heavy lifting to make this event such a success. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to post a quick update from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticgain.org\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Democratic GAIN web site\">Democratic GAIN<\/a> Happy Hour in L.A. last Thursday.&nbsp; Thank you to all Calitics readers who came out! Tom Eisenhauer sent this, which is cross posted at the GAIN blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticgain.org\/members\/blog_view.asp?id=241803\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"GAINing Ground Blog\">GAINing Ground:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>  About 100 people enjoyed the food &#8211; Cole&#39;s says they&#39;re the &#8220;originators of the French Dip&#8221; &#8211; and the chance to mix and mingle with a diverse crowd that included progressive advocates, campaigns, consultants and government officials. The diversity of the crowd was apparent, and folks got to meet other progressives &#8211; from interns to officeholders &#8211; whom they wouldn&#39;t have seen anywhere else.  (If I&#39;d remembered to take a photo, you could see what I mean.)<\/p>\n<p>   Special thanks to our long list of hosts (see below) who made this event possible &#8211; and in particular to Sarah Leonard and Ellie Wallace of the Glover Park Group, who did the heavy lifting to make this event such a success. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2gK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}