{"id":33457,"date":"2007-08-13T16:33:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/why-do-they-cal"},"modified":"2007-08-13T16:33:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-13T20:33:18","slug":"why-do-they-cal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/08\/why-do-they-cal.html","title":{"rendered":"Why do They Call it the Midwest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered why Minnesota and Wisconsin are considered to be in the Midwest US, but I&#8217;m not going to argue with the US Census Bureau.&nbsp; This week takes me through both states as I&#8217;ll visit three user groups in three days.<\/p>\n<p>First up is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=152\">LEWA<\/a>, and a chance to see the headquarters of Ashley Furniture in Arcadia, WI.&nbsp; The group draws SolidWorks users from a triangle of cities, thus the name..LA Crosse, Eau Claire, Winona Area SolidWorks User Group.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, I&#8217;ll head over to Owatonna, MN for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=269\">Southern Minnesota<\/a> SolidWorks User Group meeting being held at the Owatonna Country Club.&nbsp; Guess what we&#8217;re doing after the meeting?<\/p>\n<p>On to Minneapolis Thursday for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=125\">Minnesota SolidWorks User Group<\/a> (the 2007 SWUGN User Group of the Year), also being held near a golf course.&nbsp; It&#8217;s tough traveling with golf clubs, but I&#8217;ll rough it this time.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the group leaders, Betty Baker, Rob Jensen, and Dan Podzimek for working together to schedule these meetings back-to-back-to-back.&nbsp; I&#8217;m looking forward to each one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve often wondered why Minnesota and Wisconsin are considered to be in the Midwest US, but I&#8217;m not going to argue with the US Census Bureau.&nbsp; This week takes me through both states as I&#8217;ll visit three user groups in<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/08\/why-do-they-cal.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-33457","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\/33457","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=33457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}