{"id":33452,"date":"2007-04-04T16:41:33","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T20:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/the_birthplace_"},"modified":"2007-04-04T16:41:33","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T20:41:33","slug":"the_birthplace_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/04\/the_birthplace_.html","title":{"rendered":"The Birthplace of Elvis Gets a User Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely mention it (for obvious reasons), but when I was a kid in the 60&#8217;s, Elvis Presley was my favorite &quot;actor&quot;.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen most of his 31 movies, and &quot;Follow That Dream&quot; was my favorite, followed closely by Viva Las Vegas.&nbsp; Elvis was born in Tupelo, Mississippi on January 8th, 1935.<\/p>\n<p>Byron Morgan heads up the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=376\">North Mississippi SolidWorks User Group<\/a> based in Tupelo.&nbsp; Byron&#8217;ss going to be a great group leader.&nbsp; We traded a few emails about getting the group started, and at one point I asked him how he would like to proceed.&nbsp; His response was &quot;Full Throttle&quot;.&nbsp; My kind of guy.<\/p>\n<p>Byron even managed to land a high profile speaker for his first meeting on 04\/17.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickyjordan.net\/\">Ricky Jordan<\/a> will head on over to do his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rickyjordan.net\/2007\/02\/importing_and_r.html\">&quot;Importing and Repairing Models in SolidWorks&quot;<\/a> session for the group, as well as offer some sage advice for Byron as he learns the ins and outs of running a local user group chapter.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the area, make it a point to attend.<\/p>\n<p>And for the rest of you Elvis fans, here&#8217;s a pretty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elvis.com.au\/presley\/biography\/elvis_presley_movies.shtml\">good site<\/a> (complete with trailers!!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I rarely mention it (for obvious reasons), but when I was a kid in the 60&#8217;s, Elvis Presley was my favorite &quot;actor&quot;.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen most of his 31 movies, and &quot;Follow That Dream&quot; was my favorite, followed closely by Viva<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/04\/the_birthplace_.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[454],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-user-groups"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}