{"id":231,"date":"2011-03-08T08:21:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T16:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=231"},"modified":"2011-03-08T08:21:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-08T16:21:22","slug":"slave-labor-a-family-reunion-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Slave Labor: A Family Reunion Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, around the fourth of July, Gavin&#8217;s mom Bonnie asked us what we were doing next year on the fourth of July, wondering if we might be willing to go to a (then) un-planned family reunion for her family up in Chester, CA. \u00a0Bonnie&#8217;s family is large and scattered all across the country, so it seems like none of them see much of each other. \u00a0Hence, wanting to schedule a reunion! \u00a0So she went to work on it and we put a note on our calendars, a year in advance, about the upcoming reunion.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to a couple months ago. \u00a0Since Gavin has so rarely been in contact with his mom&#8217;s larger family, Gavin got to thinking that it&#8217;d be nice to know a little something about everyone who was coming. \u00a0That way, come the big day, people would know enough about each other in order to have a more meaningful conversation. \u00a0So, he set about to making a survey with lots of different questions and sent that survey out, requesting that people answer whatever questions they wish and, once complete, send the surveys back to him.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-233\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=233\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-233\" title=\"whoopdedoo main page\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" \/><\/a>Gavin then turned to me and asked if I would create a website for him that would have people&#8217;s survey responses and pictures, etc. \u00a0I told him that I would create one and sketched a hazy idea and that was that. \u00a0 I bought the domain for him and arranged for my cousin Danny to host the site. \u00a0I even began a Photoshop page to try to determine what it would really look like. \u00a0All was fine until President&#8217;s Day weekend, when Gavin practically held a gun to my head and basically said, &#8220;Finish the site this weekend, or else. \u00a0In return, I will give you no food, drink, or pay.&#8221; \u00a0Which is kind of an overstatement, but also kind of not.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-234\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=234\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-234\" title=\"whoopdedoo personal page\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jsgreene.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo2-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo2-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo2-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo2-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/whoopdedoo2.jpg 1091w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>So on a weekend when I was supposed to be thinking about the presidents of our fine country, I instead put together a website really quickly, making things up on the fly. \u00a0And, I am pleased to tell you that I was able to complete the website by Sunday afternoon (starting the afternoon before) &#8212; 60-some pages later. \u00a0Some of the pages are empty (containing only that person&#8217;s name and photo, because that&#8217;s all we have), whereas other pages are full, displaying that person&#8217;s contact information, survey &amp; pictures. \u00a0The hope is that this website will help spur others along who haven&#8217;t yet filled out their survey to submit something so that they will have a representative space.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, a quick turnaround for my husband &#8212; one of the hardest clients I&#8217;ve worked for!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, around the fourth of July, Gavin&#8217;s mom Bonnie asked us what we were doing next year on the fourth of July, wondering if we might be willing to go to a (then) un-planned family reunion for her family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[115,135,298,380],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsgreene.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}