{"id":303,"date":"2015-04-03T17:02:34","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/?page_id=303"},"modified":"2015-04-03T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T17:08:41","slug":"resignation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/faq-2\/resignation\/","title":{"rendered":"Resignation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;Is the current story about your <a href=\"http:\/\/jackrabbit.burningman.com\/t\/ViewEmailArchive\/t\/A3B73B8D47F733CB\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/#NEWS_2\">resignation<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/jackrabbit.burningman.com\/t\/ViewEmailArchive\/t\/A3B73B8D47F733CB\/C67FD2F38AC4859C\/#NEWS_2\">Jack Rabbit Speaks<\/a> true?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is true. I have resigned from the Board of Directors of the Burning Man Project.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be real: they weren&#8217;t going to kick me out, were they?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Being on the board of directors started to have a teensy weensy bit of negative impact on my pet project of building extravagant theme camps.\u00a0 If I hadn&#8217;t been on the board, nobody would have ever heard of Caravancicle.\u00a0 We would have anonymously sat in the middle of a cluster of hyper-expensive concierge camps and nobody would have batted an eye.\u00a0 The negative press generated by my association with the Burning Man Project has impacted our camp in several ways:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li>We had to drop our trademarked &#8216;Sherpa Wear&#8217; line of clothes.<\/li>\n<li>Our Mistresses of Merriment have asked for post-playa doctor visits to be reimbursed.<\/li>\n<li>Most of our volunteers have demanded to be paid.<\/li>\n<li>Our Guides tried to unionize, and even demanded overtime!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>None of these things would have happened if I had not joined the board.\u00a0 The bottom line is that the only reason I joined the board was for access to tickets.\u00a0 Now that <a class=\"imgScanned\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/BurningMan\/comments\/2y1kjl\/well_looks_like_burning_man_as_we_know_it_is_done\/cp6bnnf\" rel=\"nofollow\">Larry has decreed that Plug-n-Play camps get real placement<\/a>, that need has been alleviated.\u00a0 We simply applied as a theme camp, and we got all the tickets we needed.\u00a0 Once that was a done deal, I promptly resigned from the board.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, it is all the bruhaha over Caravancicle that has finally opened the door to getting Plun-n-Play camps the respect, and more importantly the placement, they deserve. For that, I wish to thank you and everyone else who made such a fuss. Out of the shadows and into the light. You got us the recognition that money alone hadn&#8217;t been able to buy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Is the current story about your resignation in the Jack Rabbit Speaks true?&#8221; Yes, it is true. I have resigned from the Board of Directors of the Burning Man Project.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s be real: they weren&#8217;t going to kick me out, were they?\u00a0 \ud83d\ude09 Being on the board of directors started to have a teensy weensy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/faq-2\/resignation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Resignation?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":140,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[14,4,13,22],"class_list":["post-303","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-bm2015","tag-caravancicle","tag-ousttananbaum","tag-tananbaum"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5ylUo-4T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/303\/revisions\/306"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tananburn.me\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}