{"id":726,"date":"2008-12-15T09:05:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.tedatum.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2008-12-15T09:05:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T15:05:27","slug":"north-texas-open-invitation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=726","title":{"rendered":"North Texas Open Invitation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a plea over in the <a title=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/tedex.tedatum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEDEX forum<\/a> for local North Texas home workshop enthusiasts (hobbyists) to rise from the chips and identify. I receive inquiries from usually beginners who are seaking a place to go to associate and learn about their new interest.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have been in many such organizations and the new folks can sometimes be a pain to the old curmudgeons. But the new folks bring life to these organizations. The fear is sometimes, &#8220;I am not good enough to teach the new folks.&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s not really true. I do my best with this web site and I always claim not to be the expert. A few locals sometimes get invited to my shop.<\/p>\n<p>There are many forums out on the Internet. I don&#8217;t intend to compete with them for good information. I also don&#8217;t get a prize for number of members. \ud83d\ude42 If you can drive to or are\u00a0within the North Texas area (and if you are from here, you know what means) go visit <a title=\"Link\" href=\"http:\/\/tedex.tedatum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TEDEX<\/a> and sign in. Thanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a plea over in the TEDEX forum for local North Texas home workshop enthusiasts (hobbyists) to rise from the chips and identify. I receive inquiries from usually beginners who are seaking a place to go to associate and learn about their new interest. Yes, I have been in many such organizations and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observation","tag-hobby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}