{"id":81,"date":"2019-08-30T03:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/?p=81"},"modified":"2019-08-30T03:11:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T03:11:31","slug":"traditions-and-transitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/2019\/08\/30\/traditions-and-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditions and Transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/files\/2019\/08\/traditionstransitions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-85 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/files\/2019\/08\/traditionstransitions.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s that time of year again when the weather gets cooler, the leaves change color, and pumpkin spice is suddenly everywhere. Ok, I know it&#8217;s not actually getting any cooler yet, but it is time to announce the USA-South Fall 2019 Regional Conference. This year we&#8217;ll be hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyndhamhotels.com\/wingate\/round-rock-texas\/wingate-by-wyndham-round-rock\/overview\">Wingate Hotel<\/a> at the Williamson Conference Center in Round Rock, TX. It&#8217;s conveniently located on I-35 and has rooms available to anyone who needs to stay the night.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll kick things off with a version of our traditional keynote from RC Sheriff <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/770716' >David Hibbs<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=770716&size=200'><\/span><\/span>, however this time he&#8217;ll be joined by new Community Manager <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/3207065839' >Nicholas Zitomer<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=3207065839&size=200'><\/span><\/span>. Doors will open at 9am, and you can meet, greet, and mingle with special guests from USA-Southeast. After a joint keynote, we&#8217;ll offer an open Q&amp;A session to finish out our morning.<\/p>\n<p>Lunch will feature a taco buffet by TacoDeli including a selection of fillings and toppings. Rice and beans will be accompanied by chips and homemade salsas. After lunch we&#8217;ll offer a wide variety of breakout sessions to finish out our day.<\/p>\n<p>Register <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y4ch5z49\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in presenting one of our breakout sessions, register <a href=\"https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yxqogjlr\">HERE<\/a> in addition to registering for the conference above.<\/p>\n<p>Questions, comments, concerns? Reach out to <span class='judge-tooltip'><a href='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/1110792441' >Erin Leonard<\/a><span class='avatar'><img width='200' height='200' src='https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=1110792441&size=200'><\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>See you in Round Rock!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy! It&#8217;s that time of year again when the weather gets cooler, the leaves change color, and pumpkin spice is suddenly everywhere. Ok, I know it&#8217;s not actually getting any cooler yet, but it is time to announce the USA-South Fall 2019 Regional Conference. This year we&#8217;ll be hosted by the Wingate Hotel at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7],"language":[3],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-conference","language-en_us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/usasouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}