{"id":359,"date":"2015-05-23T18:40:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T22:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/?p=359"},"modified":"2015-05-23T18:40:10","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T22:40:10","slug":"competing-in-district-45-table-topics-contest-may-17-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/competing-in-district-45-table-topics-contest-may-17-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Competing in District 45 Table Topics Contest &#8211; May 17, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"785\" height=\"589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NNrdaU9FQEM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Having earned\/won my way up (past the lower levels), I was honored to compete in the District 45 Toastmasters <em>Table Topics<\/em> \u2122 Contest, conducted at the District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference, on May 15-17, 2015, at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire.  <\/p>\n<p>The embedded video here (above) shows the impromptu speech I gave in response to the following question:<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;What childhood toy did you want that you never received as a child?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was a particularly difficult question for contestants (such as myself) who had not had that specific experience.  Although I did not have a directly personal experience in my own life with which to more easily answer the Table Topics \u2122 question, I still gave a fun &#038; creative answer.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, the <em>Table Topics &trade;<\/em> contest was truly fun, and the other contestants gave some fantastic replies!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mark-Henkel-Table-Topics-D45-2015-05-16-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mark-Henkel-Table-Topics-D45-2015-05-16-1.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Henkel - Table Topics - D45 2015-05-16 - 1\" width=\"360\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mark-Henkel-Table-Topics-D45-2015-05-16-1.jpg 360w, http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Mark-Henkel-Table-Topics-D45-2015-05-16-1-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having earned\/won my way up (past the lower levels), I was honored to compete in the District 45 Toastmasters Table Topics \u2122 Contest, conducted at the District 45 Toastmasters Spring Conference, on May 15-17, 2015, at the Radisson Hotel in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35,32],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"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=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions\/363"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}