{"id":62,"date":"2012-01-23T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/?p=62"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T18:26:11","slug":"the-need-to-recruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"The need to recruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reenacting organizations die off for a couple reasons:<\/p>\n

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  1. No new recruits<\/li>\n
  2. Members get older<\/li>\n
  3. Members lose interest<\/li>\n
  4. Members die<\/li>\n
  5. Other units steal unit members<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happens. That’s why one needs to constantly recruit. Constantly.<\/p>\n

    One also needs to have events. And I don’t just mean “stand and preens” where you talk to the public, because let’s face it, 97% of the public do not understand nor care about what reenactors are doing AND think we are “nuts” (this from people who collect “beanie Babies” and NASCAR commemorative shot glasses (I digress)). We have to get people to see what we do AND have good events. Guys like details, they like doing things<\/strong>, vs. talking to touronz. Many guys do not like to make things, which for some guys is their reason for existence. Not that there’s anything wrong w\/ that, just some people do not like to make crap. Or they are all thumbs, etc. C’est La Vie!<\/em> It’s a free country.<\/p>\n

    Anyway, I just thought I’d throw that out there…you didn’t wanna hear my other blog on trucking BS today did you? Really? I thought not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Reenacting organizations die off for a couple reasons: No new recruits Members get older Members lose interest Members die Other units steal unit members Happens. That’s why one needs to constantly recruit. Constantly. One also needs to have events. And I don’t just mean “stand and preens” where you talk to the public, because let’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1C3k6-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legioix.org\/diarium\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}