{"id":2294,"date":"2005-10-16T18:50:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-16T22:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2005-10-16T18:51:26","modified_gmt":"2005-10-16T22:51:26","slug":"review-of-canwea-2005-swag-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/16\/review-of-canwea-2005-swag-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"review of CanWEA 2005 swag bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m at the 2005 <a href=\"http:\/\/canwea.ca\/\">CanWEA<\/a> conference for the next few days. The swag bag is a standard nondescript nylon thing, thankfully big enough to take my iBook and a few other bits and pieces. The contents are a bit disappointing, though:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a very plasticky flashlight that I may discard after harvesting its batteries.<\/li>\n<li>a small bag of jujubes.<\/li>\n<li>a copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nawindpower.com\/naw\/\">North American Windpower<\/a> magazine <em>(which in itself is quite a decent magazine, so is actually one of the highlights).<\/em><\/li>\n<li>a trade show guide, but no conference program (they were held up in customs; can&#8217;t we print &#8217;em here?)<\/li>\n<li>various company brochures, zzzz.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll note an absence of useful pens, pads, USB keys, model turbines, or other special swag. I was hoping for more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m at the 2005 CanWEA conference for the next few days. The swag bag is a standard nondescript nylon thing, thankfully big enough to take my iBook and a few other bits and pieces. The contents are a bit disappointing, though: a very plasticky flashlight that I may discard after harvesting its batteries. a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[2,8],"tags":[1015,1329,358,456,85,1045,1308,800,870,172,148,1027,206,1009,779,593,993,1345,1335,1024,70,1269,60,229,59,582],"class_list":["post-2294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","category-wind-things","tag-1015","tag-bag","tag-book","tag-canwea","tag-car","tag-copy","tag-erie","tag-flash","tag-harvest","tag-ibook","tag-light","tag-magazine","tag-model","tag-nylon","tag-ogr","tag-pen","tag-power","tag-ren","tag-rip","tag-trad","tag-turbine","tag-ugh","tag-urbine","tag-usb","tag-wind","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-B0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}