{"id":2707,"date":"2009-06-19T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.wend.ca\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2020-06-19T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T02:09:17","slug":"the-june-2009-batch-of-twu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"The June 2009 Batch of TWU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re not really my students &#8212; yet they are. They&#8217;re co-workers and peers yet they&#8217;re not quite ready for project work. I am supposed to call them freshers but would rather call them peeps. If you work for ThoughtWorks, these are your new co-workers; the June 2009 Class of TWU.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-class13-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-class13-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-class13-portrait.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-class13-portrait-595x396.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-class13-portrait-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we are with Roy after the chilli eating contest:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7185.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7185.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7185-595x396.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7185-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not all seriousness. We do have some fun:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7223.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7223-595x396.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7223-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And finally, the fabulous tech girls of the June 2009 Batch of TWU:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7237.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-74925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7237.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7237-595x396.jpg 595w, https:\/\/wend.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/med-IMG_7237-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nThey&#8217;re not really my students &#8212; yet they are. They&#8217;re co-workers and&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wend.ca\/?p=2707\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;The June 2009 Batch of TWU&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[306,612,25,611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-chennai","category-india","category-tamil-nadu","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92652,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/92652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wend.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}