{"id":46067,"date":"2019-10-04T12:46:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?p=46067"},"modified":"2019-10-04T12:46:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T19:46:31","slug":"behind-the-otto-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/behind-the-otto-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Otto Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Otto Haas moved to Philadelphia in 1909 from Germany to expand his company, Rohm and Haas, which became wildly successful. In 1945 he used some of his wealth to start a foundation to address post-war social needs, and his children and grandchildren have continued his philanthropic legacy. His grandson thinks Otto would have felt very at home at Town Hall: \u201cOtto cared so deeply about his local community, and he made sure no one was ever left behind. <strong>He would appreciate Town Hall\u2019s commitment to making a place where everyone is welcome and can afford to take part.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Otto\u2019s commitment to his community was evidenced throughout his life, work, and approach to running his business. He believed it was his responsibility to ensure that his employees could live a good life. During the Depression, he worked hard to make sure no one ever lost their job. As Duncan noted \u201cThey might have to make do with a different role for a little while, but he did whatever it took to make sure their livelihoods were secure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Outside of public life, Otto was known for his mischievous sense of humor, love of the outdoors, and gathering with his family. <strong>Town Hall is grateful for the opportunity to honor his memory in our own gathering space, the Otto bar in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyncotefoundation.org\/\">Wyncote Foundation NW<\/a> Forum.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Portrait of Otto Haas by Kathryn Rathke<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;He would appreciate Town Hall\u2019s commitment to making a place where everyone is welcome and can afford to take part.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,26,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-featured","category-if-these-halls-could-talk","category-town-crier"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}