{"id":848,"date":"2024-03-05T22:08:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-05T22:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esustage.wpengine.com\/kansas-city\/?page_id=848"},"modified":"2025-05-22T19:26:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T19:26:01","slug":"online-happy-hour-series","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/southwestva\/online-happy-hour-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Happy Hour Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section id=\"\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n            \n                            <div class=\"title heading-2\">\n                    Online Happy Hour Series                <\/div>\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esuus.org\/nyc-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2024\/05\/HH-Header-2048x779-1.png\" alt=\"ESU Happy Hour Series\" width=\"2048\" height=\"779\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response to the COVID-19 world, in July of 2020 ESU members got together to introduce the virtual Happy Hour Program, which has been met with resounding success. The Happy Hour Program brings guest speakers from locations all over the world, live and free of charge using the Zoom format. And to make it a real happy hour, a few of the speakers suggest signature cocktails to match the theme for the attendees to create and enjoy at home during their presentations. Many speakers also offer exciting participation opportunities with fun give-away books and products at the end of each program. All Happy Hour events are recorded and available for download to members and anyone interested to watch on-demand. <\/span><\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n                            <div class=\"buttons\">\n                                                                                                                                            <a href=\"\/what-we-do\/happy-hour-virtual-speaker-series\/\" class=\"btn btn-solid btn-small\" target=\"_blank\">Upcoming Happy Hours<\/a>\n                                                                                                                                                                        <a href=\"\/what-we-do\/happy-hour-virtual-speaker-series\/happy-hour-recordings\/\" class=\"btn btn-transparent-dark btn-small\" target=\"_blank\">Explore ESU Happy Hour Archives<\/a>\n                                                                                    <\/div>\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<section id=\"\" class=\"esu-basic-full-width\">\n\n    <div class=\"inner\">\n        <div class=\"wrapper\">\n\n            \n            \n                            <div class=\"subtitle heading-3\">\n                    Small selection of past Happy Hour topics:                <\/div>\n            \n                            <div class=\"content\">\n                    <p style=\"text-align: center;\">Classical English Style, Ward Farnsworth<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">England Before the Norman Conquest, Prof. Robert Hanning<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Oh Yes It Is, The English Pantomime, Prof. James Stebbings<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Port Wines, Phil Williams<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Weird Moby-Dick, Heser Blum<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">London Architecture, 1066 thru the 18th Century, Dr. James Glass<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Virtual Tour of Sherlock Holmes\u2019 London, Annamarie Dall\u2019Anese<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kipling\u2019s Kim: The Great Game and Real Spys, David Richards<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ending a Regency Marriage, James Nagle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Dark Secret Behind Charles Dickens\u2019 Christmas Tales, Andrew Halls, OBE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Potatoes Are Not Irish, Tomatoes Are Not Italian, Dr. Robin Sinclair<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">An Ancient and Global History of the Book, Prof. James Raven<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Kindertransport to Britain, Holly Mandelkern<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                <\/div>\n            \n            \n\n            \n        <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-848","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.2 (Yoast SEO v26.0) - 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