{"id":42,"date":"2023-06-24T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/?p=42"},"modified":"2025-10-30T04:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T04:31:00","slug":"networking-and-expanding-the-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Networking and Expanding the Family"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This year was the first year that I was brought out of my comfort zone and into the public eye. I gathered my family and friends together to get a booth at the local Mankato Solstice Festival live music event. We got a booth for 2 days. We made some Viking stargazer chairs, some wood and antler rune sets, some cast resin and 3D printed items, and I even did some rune readings on the second day. We gave a chair to the silent auction and it sold for $45. I did 9 rune readings and changed as many people\u2019s lives. I networked alongside my cousin Tyler with the event planners, a local investor who gave me my first big order for chairs, and I managed to get a chair signed by the headliner Hayden Coffman for my daughter Isabelle. What a great weekend and a giant step into the future. Plus the launch of the website here has been a fun project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year was the first year that I was brought out of my comfort zone and into the public eye. I gathered my family and friends together to get a booth at the local Mankato Solstice Festival live music event. We got a booth for 2 days. We made some Viking stargazer chairs, some wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions\/43"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thatoneguytad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}