{"id":306,"date":"2013-10-06T23:49:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T04:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:54:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T00:54:31","slug":"2013-national-4-h-week-monday-favorite-moment-in-4-h-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"2013 National 4-H Week &#8211; Monday: Favorite Moment in 4-H &#8211; #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen my friends post about their favorite moment in 4-H, so I thought I would post mine, as this was my last year as a member. The good problem I have is that I have been blessed to have multiple favorite moments while in 4-H, so I&#8217;ll be posting 3-4 &#8220;Favorite Moments&#8221; this week, followed by things I&#8217;m looking forward to in the future.<\/p>\n<h2>2013 National 4-H Conference<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideflickr.com\/iframe\/Iws82FUh\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was lucky to be selected as one of 4 Iowa delegates to attend the National 4-H Conference in Chevy Chase, MD. The week I was there went by SO fast. I met TONS of new friends who I&#8217;m still in contact with today. In fact, I spent a week with a gal that I met from West Virginia this summer. We started a Facebook chat that now has well over 20,000 messages \ud83d\ude42 But the people I met from all over the nation (including places like North Carolina, Puerto Rico, Montana, Nova Scotia, and Hawaii), will forever be my best friends. I&#8217;m already &#8220;planning&#8221; a trip down south over winter break to visit my friend Steven in Puerto Rico. As we were from Iowa, we were lucky enough to meet 1:1 our former governor and current Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, after he keynoted on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iowa Delegates with Secretary Vilsack\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5445\/10131427715_4041384ee3.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Talking with Secretary Vilsack\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5542\/10131347724_b340b9b184.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iowa Delegates talking with Secretary Vilsack\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5447\/10131494846_9bdca3a8f5.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iowa Delegates at the Cherry Blossom Festival\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8099\/8636531441_39cf86d4c8.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Iowa Delegates at the White House\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8116\/8636535105_5bd5cea273.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"South Dakota and Iowa Delegations take the Metro to DC\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3715\/10131759586_195e2a8efa.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>The Last Night<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jessi (WV National Guard Teen Panel) and I\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7438\/10131611094_e4c5c0f84b.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"National Guard Teen Panel\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5496\/10131682415_583d622bff.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blake (NC National Guard Teen Panel) &amp; I\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5538\/10131814083_fc346edebe.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jessi (WV National Guard Teen Panel) &amp; I\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2870\/10131674175_0391504449.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"My friend Steven (PR National Guard Teen Panel)\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7319\/10131761666_a0a9e4785c.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lexi (MD National Guard Teen Panel) and I\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7372\/10131686965_cd7565c129.jpg\" width=\"48%\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The Iowa Delegation's connecting flight got delayed, but we made it home!\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3665\/10131813673_c5ff68f616.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have seen my friends post about their favorite moment in 4-H, so I thought I would post mine, as this was my last year as a member. The good problem I have is that I have been blessed to have multiple favorite moments while in 4-H, so I&#8217;ll be posting 3-4 &#8220;Favorite Moments&#8221; this&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/?p=306\" title=\"Continue reading &lsquo;2013 National 4-H Week &#8211; Monday: Favorite Moment in 4-H &#8211; #2&rsquo;\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-4-h-week","category-4h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blog.david.runneals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}