{"id":228,"date":"2010-02-13T21:38:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T21:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/the-qnewq-nats\/"},"modified":"2023-02-16T15:02:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-16T21:02:46","slug":"the-qnewq-nats","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/the-qnewq-nats\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 NATS website update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had every intention to publish this new website and the wealth of new information by the end of 2009.&nbsp; My mistake was trying to get every single piece complete in too little time.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a short list of some things that have changed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Revised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/NATSrules2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rules <\/a>&#8211; more details can be found in the Record of Revisions on pages 2 and 3\n<ul>\n<li>Recommendation to use UCI-based rules (though, not required)<\/li>\n<li>Numerous clarifications<\/li>\n<li>Incorporation of the mission statement<\/li>\n<li>New points system<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Application to establish NATS as a non-profit organization\n<ul>\n<li>Created Mission Statement<\/li>\n<li>Created officers and by-laws<\/li>\n<li>Opened small-business banking account<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Developed a new website with modern features and capabilities<\/li>\n<li>Worked with all of the 2009 event directors and two new event directors to tentatively establish the <a href=\"index.php?option=com_jevents&amp;task=year.listevents&amp;year=2010&amp;month=02&amp;day=13&amp;Itemid=26\">2010 Event Calendar<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Established a closer relationship with the Ontario Trials Series<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, I&#8217;ve been quite busy.&nbsp; I suppose I should also mention that my son was born on January 6th so he has occupied a huge portion of my time for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The last piece, which has caused the longest delay, is to offer payment processing on the website for <a href=\"index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=104&amp;Itemid=41\">voluntary membership<\/a> and donations.&nbsp; You see, my plan for the future of NATS is one of sustainability and, hopefully, growth.&nbsp; To date, we&#8217;ve held NATS together with meager sponsorship and our own pockets.&nbsp; The recent economic challenges have dried up nearly all sponsorship and, well, I can&#8217;t run the whole thing on my own.&nbsp; Plus, if we&#8217;re ever going to grow the sport on this continent, we need to make it easier to establish new events, attract new riders and support the existing riders.&nbsp; The simple truth is that these things require money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had every intention to publish this new website and the wealth of new information by the end of 2009.&nbsp; My mistake was trying to get every single piece complete in too little time.&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a short list of some things that have changed: Revised the rules &#8211; more details can be found in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-27"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/228\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.natrials.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}