{"id":329,"date":"2010-04-23T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2010-04-23T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T14:40:33","slug":"joining-toastmasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=329","title":{"rendered":"Joining Toastmasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toastmasters.org\">Toastmasters<\/a> last Wednesday to ramp up my public speaking skills, particularly since I&#8217;ve been regularly speaking at user groups and technical conferences. My long-term goal is to be as effective in front of an audience as speakers that I admire, such as nationally known speakers like Dave Thomas and Chad Fowler, or top local speakers like Jeff Casimir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I joined Toastmasters last Wednesday to ramp up my public speaking skills, particularly since I&#8217;ve been regularly speaking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-speaking","tag-toastmasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}