{"id":21,"date":"2026-08-16T11:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/why-the-main-hall-seats-900\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:27:06","slug":"why-the-main-hall-seats-900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/why-the-main-hall-seats-900\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Main Hall seats 900, not 2,000"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were offered a hall for two thousand. We chose one for nine hundred, because from its back row you can still see the speaker&#039;s face without looking at a screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the back row you can still see the speaker&#039;s face.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A smaller room changes a conference. Questions come from the floor instead of an app, speakers stay for lunch, and the coffee break is a conversation rather than a queue. It also means tickets sell out, which is why the early-bird price ends on 30 April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the Main Hall is full, the River Room shows every talk live on a big screen, with its own microphone for questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We could have sold twice as many tickets in a bigger hall. We chose a room where the back row can still see the speaker&#8217;s face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":22,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5,14],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-behind-the-scenes","tag-lisbon","tag-venue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/wemeet-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}