{"id":153,"date":"2014-05-26T19:57:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/?p=153"},"modified":"2014-05-30T12:04:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:04:07","slug":"running-the-gauntlet-at-conference-for-my-dtm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/running-the-gauntlet-at-conference-for-my-dtm\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Running the Gauntlet&#8221; at Conference for my DTM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VcwP1XF1wUc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference was held this last weekend, on May 23-25, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in South Portland, Maine.  Because this conference was hosted so locally to me, the District 45 Leadership officially celebrated my <a href=\"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/july-1-2013-i-am-a-dtm\/\">new DTM<\/a> this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>This official recognition involved receiving the special <em>&#8220;Distinguished Toastmaster&#8221;<\/em> lapel-pin and then &#8220;running the gauntlet&#8221; &#8211; passing through a congratulatory procession of existing DTMs.<\/p>\n<p>The video of this celebration was posted to the youtube channel, titled,<br \/>\n<strong><b><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/VcwP1XF1wUc\" target=\"youtube\">Mark Henkel achieved DTM, &#8220;Running the Gauntlet&#8221; Celebration<\/a><\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference was held this last weekend, on May 23-25, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in South Portland, Maine. Because this conference was hosted so locally to me, the District 45 Leadership officially celebrated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":156,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,5],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}