{"id":170,"date":"2014-05-29T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T22:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/?p=170"},"modified":"2014-05-30T12:21:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T16:21:13","slug":"heavy-metal-at-the-guts-or-glory-contest-toastmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/heavy-metal-at-the-guts-or-glory-contest-toastmasters\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; at the &#8220;Guts or Glory&#8221; Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_m8BooZinEo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This was a lot of fun &#8211; and it surprised everyone!<\/p>\n<p>  On Friday night, after the Opening Ceremonies of the District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference this last weekend, on May 23-25, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in South Portland, Maine, an unofficial fun-time event took place.  It was a<br \/>\n&#8220;GUTS or GLORY Contest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Those of us who were willing to participate in the contest signed up &#8220;blindly&#8221; to compete at the last minute.  When a contestant&#8217;s name was called to the stage, they would choose to do something unplanned and unexpected for 1-2 timed-minutes (timing rules as Toastmasters Table Topic &trade; rules). The choice would be either for GUTS (for doing something daring) or for GLORY (for doing something spectacular).<\/p>\n<p>When I was called to the stage at 9:20pm, I chose &#8220;GUTS&#8221; and then performed this completely unprepared and off-the-cuff message. Doing something I had not publicly done in several, several years, I actually sang 2 very famous classic songs a cappella with a &#8220;Heavy Metal&#8221; voice. No one saw this coming- being able to see a completely unexpected, different side of me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a lot of fun &#8211; and it surprised everyone! On Friday night, after the Opening Ceremonies of the District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference this last weekend, on May 23-25, 2014, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel in South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"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=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}