{"id":526,"date":"2026-03-26T08:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/?p=526"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:54:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:54:43","slug":"lunch-the-botanic-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/lunch-the-botanic-gardens\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch @ the Botanic Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"944\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325_botanic-gardens.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-528\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325_botanic-gardens.jpg 944w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325_botanic-gardens-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260325_botanic-gardens-768x515.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L to R: <em>Don Howie, Marilyn Bond (Fooks), Pam Mackenzie , Steve Fryman, Chris and David Drummond, Coral Fryman (Thompson), Julie Poon, David Ho and Peter Poon at &#8220;The Terrace&#8221; (photo by John Mackenzie)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Eleven Monash Med74 colleagues met for lunch at <em>The Terrace<\/em> in the Royal Botanic Gardens on Wednesday 25th March, thanks to Chris Drummond&#8217;s superb organisation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conversations included our health, work, retirement, families (grand children), and holidays, as well as solutions to the world&#8217;s problems &#8211; if only we were pulling the levers !<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many thanks again to Chris for arranging. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleven Monash Med74 colleagues met for lunch at The Terrace in the Royal Botanic Gardens on Wednesday 25th March, thanks&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/lunch-the-botanic-gardens\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lunch @ the Botanic Gardens<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monash-med74.dyndns.org\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}