{"id":8457,"date":"2014-09-16T08:30:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T13:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=8457"},"modified":"2014-09-16T08:30:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T13:30:21","slug":"apwu-orlando-selected-as-site-of-2016-national-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2014\/09\/16\/apwu-orlando-selected-as-site-of-2016-national-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"APWU: Orlando Selected as Site of 2016 National Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"news-date-inline\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">09\/15\/2014<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>&#8211;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span>The National Executive Board selected Orlando, FL, as the site of the 2016 National Convention, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell has announced. The board vote took place on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We heard presentations from hotels in several cities,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;One of our goals was to select a site that would help keep expenses down for locals, state organizations and the national union. Orlando will help us do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s been many years since we held a convention in the South,&#8221; noted President Mark Dimondstein, &#8220;so I&#8217;m pleased we will return to Florida.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark your calendars for the following events:<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\">Aug. 19, 2016 \u2013 Pre-Convention Workshops<br \/>\nAug. 20-21, 2016 \u2013 Craft Conferences<br \/>\nAug. 22-25, 2016 \u2013 National Convention<\/p>\n<p class=\"rteindent1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7249\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/1aa-APWU-small.gif\" alt=\"1aa-APWU-small\" width=\"295\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>09\/15\/2014\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0The National Executive Board selected Orlando, FL, as the site of the 2016 National Convention, Secretary-Treasurer Liz Powell has announced. The board vote took place on Sept. 10. &#8220;We heard presentations from hotels in several cities,&#8221; Powell said. &#8220;One of our goals was to select a site that would help keep expenses down for locals, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apwu-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}