{"id":557,"date":"2016-02-20T20:25:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T01:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/?p=557"},"modified":"2016-02-21T20:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T01:37:22","slug":"2016-off-to-a-great-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/2016-off-to-a-great-start\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 off to a great start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new year 2016 has been off to a great start.<\/p>\n<p>I presented workshops at two different venues as well as an entertaining speech just for fun (and fun it was!)<\/p>\n<p>I am also gearing up for competing in this year&#8217;s World Championship of Public Speaking (WCPS).  My speech for this is now fully developed and is being rehearsed several times a day.  (Both showers and car-drives are perfect free-time opportunities for verbal-rehearsals! LOL)<\/p>\n<p>This process does so improve my skills for all the other speech work I , which is why I value and enjoy it so intensely!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and one more thing&#8230;  I DO also enjoy that this has been an above-average warm and below-average snowfall winter this year in Maine!<\/p>\n<p>Yup: I like how 2016 is turning out to be indeed. <\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned &#8211; and Be well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new year 2016 has been off to a great start. I presented workshops at two different venues as well as an entertaining speech just for fun (and fun it was!) I am also gearing up for competing in this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markhenkelspeaker.com\/toastmaster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}