{"id":1371,"date":"2025-08-07T02:29:55","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2025-08-07T02:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T02:29:57","slug":"an-august-august-meeting-cometh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/an-august-august-meeting-cometh\/","title":{"rendered":"An August August Meeting Cometh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?resize=768%2C768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/august.jpeg?resize=850%2C850&amp;ssl=1 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the ambiguity of the word \u201caugust,\u201d in pronunciation and meaning, yet ultimately both tied back to the Roman emperor Augustus, with deeper etymology tied to \u201caugur\u201d and \u201causpiciousness.\u201d For Las Cruces Writers it is auspicious in that elections are held and the next Augustus and his (or her) cabinet are chosen by the people. It seems this year, however, the august reign of Diego will continue!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/mvb4fAvCWorvUzd59\">3011 Buena Vida Circle<\/a>. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday August 9th, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Agenda<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Call to Order<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Welcome New Members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Membership and Financials<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Member Accomplishments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Efrem class<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Author success (what\u00a0does success mean to you?) discussion<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Readings by members<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Writing prompt (if there&#8217;s time)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Time &amp; Date of next meeting reminders<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Adjournment<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the ambiguity of the word \u201caugust,\u201d in pronunciation and meaning, yet ultimately both tied back to the Roman emperor Augustus, with deeper etymology tied to \u201caugur\u201d and \u201causpiciousness.\u201d For Las Cruces Writers it is auspicious in that elections are held and the next Augustus and his (or her) cabinet are chosen by the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,10,90,32],"tags":[348,157,122],"class_list":["post-1371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-meetings","category-members","category-writers","tag-august-2025-meeting","tag-elections","tag-lcw-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdvZx1-m7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1371\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascruceswritersgroup.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}