{"id":739,"date":"2012-03-03T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.keenertech.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2012-03-03T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-03T14:48:00","slug":"toastmasters-2012-international-speech-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Toastmasters 2012 International Speech Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve found Toastmasters to be an excellent organization for helping me to improve my speaking skills, as well as my leadership skills. I was proud to participate today in the Toastmasters 2012 International Speech Contest for my area (District 29, Division D, Area 45).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Edmond Joe, who is a Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and an awesome speaker, was kind enough to take some photos of my talk:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/contest_8474.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/contest_8474.jpg 500w, https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/contest_8474-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the first time I&#8217;ve ever participated in a speech contest. It&#8217;s just you, an audience, no notes or visuals, and five to seven minutes to fill (and you get disqualified if you&#8217;re more than 30 seconds over or under). I was pleased to find that I was actually good enough to be competitive. While I didn&#8217;t win, I did take second place. I highly recommend Toastmasters if you&#8217;d like to improve your speaking and leadership skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found Toastmasters to be an excellent organization for helping me to improve my speaking skills, as well<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[214],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-toastmasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.keenertech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}