{"id":1257,"date":"2011-01-20T06:21:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasemccarty.com\/blog\/?p=1257"},"modified":"2011-01-20T06:21:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T11:21:27","slug":"chinwag-with-mike-laverick-vmwareemccloudetc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/chinwag-with-mike-laverick-vmwareemccloudetc\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinwag with Mike Laverick &#8211; VMware\/EMC\/Cloud\/etc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Mike Laverick a little more than 5 years now.<\/p>\n<p>I initially interacted with Mike through the <strong><a title=\"VMTN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmtn.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">VMTN forums<\/a><\/strong>, and we met in person at VMworld 2005.  In my becoming more active over the years in the VMware community, Mike has contributed some really good content on his <strong><a title=\"RTFM Education\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rtfm-ed.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">RTFM<\/a><\/strong> site.  Over the years, we have had some very good virtualization\/storage\/computer\/network related conversations through the VMTN forums, Twitter, and in person.<\/p>\n<p>In December of 2010, Mike Laverick asked me to have a <strong><a title=\"Noun: chin-wag - light informal conversation for social occasions\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/chin-wag\" target=\"_blank\">Chinwag<\/a><\/strong> with him.<\/p>\n<p>For those who don&#8217;t know what a Chinwag is, it is a &#8220;light informal conversation for social occasions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rtfm-ed.co.uk\/2011\/01\/20\/chinwag-with-mike-jase-mccarty-episode-42\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1258\" title=\"chinwag-jase-mccarty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/chinwag-jase-mccarty.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"579\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There have been many folks that have been selected to have with a <strong><a title=\"Chinwag with Mike\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rtfm-ed.co.uk\/category\/chinwag\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chinwag with Mike<\/a><\/strong>, and I&#8217;m very honored to be among the Chinwagees.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the opportunity for me to share some of my experiences, as well as look silly (and half asleep) on camera.<\/p>\n<p>Jase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have known Mike Laverick a little more than 5 years now. I initially interacted with Mike through the VMTN forums, and we met in &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1995,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions\/1995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}