{"id":54,"date":"2005-09-30T09:53:48","date_gmt":"2005-09-29T23:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-03-29T13:21:12","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:21:12","slug":"networkers-party-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/?p=54","title":{"rendered":"Networkers party night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Networkers party was held at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamworld.com.au\">Dreamworld<\/a>, about 20 minutes north of the Gold Coast. We all piled into the buses and headed to the fun park to be greeted with flames and jester hats.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cisco party fire\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/cisco_party_fire.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Jester hats? That&#8217;s right, every attendee was given a totally cool jester hat to wear on the night.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cisco party jesters\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/cisco_party_jesters.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above photo is very funny. There were like 100 hungry jesters lining up for some &#8216;food&#8217; at every location around the theme park. And believe you me, it was NOT worth lining up for.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the rides were operational so you had screaming and shouting at the thrill of free-falling 80 metres on the Tower of Terror (or whatever it&#8217;s called). I settled for an old favourite &#8211; the dodgem cars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cisco pete murray\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/cisco_party_petemurray.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the evening was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petemurray.com\">Peter Murray<\/a>, who even played with a jester hat on for a while. The crowd of mainly women got quite excited. They even chanted &#8220;encore, encore!&#8221; and Pete was kind enough to oblige.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Cisco Australia and New Zealand managing director Ross Fowler, seen here with Brad Howarth and Shing Quah, for putting on such a great night. Brad, you&#8217;re looking a bit sinister there.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"cisco party portrait\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/wp-content\/cisco_party_portrait.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling the Gold Coast, with its shiny new convention centre, hasn&#8217;t seen the last of Networkers.<\/p>\n<p>Rodney<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s Networkers party was held at Dreamworld, about 20 minutes north of the Gold Coast. We all piled into the buses and headed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daytoday","category-marketing","category-tech-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":724,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gedda.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}