{"id":33482,"date":"2007-10-15T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/swcommunity\/meet-me-in-st-l"},"modified":"2007-10-15T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T17:08:17","slug":"meet-me-in-st-l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/10\/meet-me-in-st-l.html","title":{"rendered":"Meet Me in St. Louis (but don&#039;t sing The Trolley Song)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of old movies &#8211; adventure (The Adventures of Robin Hood &#8211; 1938), drama (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington &#8211; 1939), comedy (The Time of Their Lives &#8211; 1946), and yes, musicals (Yankee Doodle Dandy &#8211; 1942).&nbsp; While the 1944 Judy Garland flick mentioned in the title wasn&#8217;t one of my favorites, I can&#8217;t forget it because of <em><strong>that<\/strong><\/em> song. In fact, I can hardly think about St. Louis at all without the words spinning around in my head.<\/p>\n<p><em>Clang-clang-clang went the trolley&#8230;ding-ding-ding went the bell&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been humming the tune a lot lately because I&#8217;ll be heading to a meeting of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swugn.org\/pages\/calendar\/UGdetails.html?id=276\">St. Louis SolidWorks User Group<\/a> this week.&nbsp; The group there is terrific, averaging more than 50 attendees per quarterly meeting.&nbsp; Group leader Vasant Bennett has done quite a job with this group (he gets a lot of help from Carrie too).<\/p>\n<p>This will be my first trip ever to St. Louis and I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.&nbsp; If you&#8217;re in the area, please make it a point to attend the meeting and say hello.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Just please don&#8217;t sing &quot;The Trolley Song&quot;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of old movies &#8211; adventure (The Adventures of Robin Hood &#8211; 1938), drama (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington &#8211; 1939), comedy (The Time of Their Lives &#8211; 1946), and yes, musicals (Yankee Doodle Dandy &#8211; 1942).&nbsp;<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2007\/10\/meet-me-in-st-l.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-33482","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\/33482","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=33482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}