{"id":1785,"date":"2016-11-11T14:10:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T01:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2016-11-26T21:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T08:21:06","slug":"nz-bridge-governance-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/2016\/11\/11\/nz-bridge-governance-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Bridge governance changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may be aware of the changes in structure being proposed by the board of NZ Bridge and the strong opposition to these by some members, in particular the letter sent to all affiliated bridge clubs by board member Alan Turner. Alan asked all clubs to also write to NZCBA expressing their opinions on the proposed changes and the way in which the board is going about trying to implement these.<br \/>\nTo keep everyone informed on what is going on, there are links here to Alan Turner\u2019s open letter, the response from the chair of NZ Bridge Arie Guersen, and the letter that Alan Dick has written to the board on behalf of the Rotorua club:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Open-Letter-from-Alan-Turner.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from Alan Turner<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NZB-letter-to-all-clubs-8-Nov-2016.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Response from Arie Guersen, NZ Bridge<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/NZ-Bridge-Board-Letter_RBC.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Letter from Rotorua Bridge Club<\/a><br \/>\nIf you want to keep up to date on this controversy and other news and views check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/265024200193334\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kiwibridge<\/a> page on facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of you may be aware of the changes in structure being proposed by the board of NZ Bridge and the strong opposition to these by some members, in particular the letter sent to all affiliated bridge clubs by board member Alan Turner. Alan asked all clubs to also write to NZCBA expressing their opinions on the proposed changes and \u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/2016\/11\/11\/nz-bridge-governance-changes\/\">Read more<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rotoruabridgeclub.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}