{"id":262,"date":"2015-12-12T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2015-12-12T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-12T11:00:10","slug":"december-speech-12-2-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/12\/december-speech-12-2-15\/","title":{"rendered":"December Speech &#8211; 12.2.15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JDD2T.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-263\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JDD2T-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"JDD2T\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JDD2T-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/JDD2T.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I had mentioned earlier, the last piece of the media snowball that started in July was being invited to speak at a local Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the speech on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/RxQXd16pPNc\" TARGET=\"_blank\">YouTUbe<\/a>, and the rest of the 2015 media coverage is available <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/jg-ms15\" TARGET=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And no, that stumble truly wasn&#8217;t planned.  The longest speech I had ever given in the past was somewhere in the 7-8 minute range.  I just lost my train of thought at about that point.  Perfect timing though.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to my parents, coaches and Senator Connelly for all coming out to hear me speak!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I had mentioned earlier, the last piece of the media snowball that started in July was being invited to speak at a local Chamber of Commerce. You can view the speech on YouTUbe, and the rest of the 2015 media coverage is available here. And no, that stumble truly wasn&#8217;t planned. The longest speech &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/2015\/12\/12\/december-speech-12-2-15\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">December Speech &#8211; 12.2.15<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[7,139,138,6,136,137],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-james","category-terri","tag-james-gilliard","tag-leaglly-blind","tag-speaking","tag-terri-hayes","tag-western-dupage","tag-western-dupage-chamber"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nocrappyexcuses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}