{"id":610,"date":"2014-11-06T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2017-02-18T23:08:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-18T23:08:19","slug":"congratulations-to-the-new-world-champion-2014-of-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/2014\/11\/06\/congratulations-to-the-new-world-champion-2014-of-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to the New World Champion 2014 of Public Speaking!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The 2014 title was awarded to Dananjaya Hettiarachchi from Nawala Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, with his winning speech, &#8220;I See Something.&#8221; Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001dFJbhrAgTGIb58oesirFAuxj7WBCNvfWzYRJMNDz_jgqDhkY9An-7LDId4YJLB6mpS_PeCLtQExFkatBy7RDMseCVn-XvopekL3qwDPQ4q8NSt_1AK6cq9FYjY85KGjiVLLc481Dx22tIlOq2Gzjd6w4mMr86UNqcjgHR5xPkgtUqISreGADgglCsgPmqtQT0Z6LEZDLOyhle-85rN6GXuRbO26MQhRl0cfA_pNLUYg=&amp;c=9dVpz57pjzA-Nzk1xXjzZ7DhZwyz5iVP_4k8NEaSGM5KATX-_8dJog==&amp;ch=hs33BvlMk387_1Zpf5P7SqH9anAFjz-kXQtz0gQ0UPDhYo0FSIl5mg==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">video clips<\/a> from Mr. Hettiarachchi&#8217;s speech. Second- and third-place winners were, respectively, Kwong Yue Yang from Guangzhou, China, with his speech, &#8220;Four Words&#8221; and Kelly Sargeant from Houston, Texas, with her speech, &#8220;Good Bye Wi-Fi.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">View the full list of finalists at <a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001dFJbhrAgTGIb58oesirFAuxj7WBCNvfWzYRJMNDz_jgqDhkY9An-7GDU_qyjZZ9SOBbxn13_tr9gMIU844RBnLp56tLKQ1PIgHO9P4Kscatc7wuFQgB_ywM7n9euACz9OG5yGqW2Ir70F_43iMKIXRCtHmOpa-BYtr8Km81Knu_o9fMjg0YsgnI3DVuCaaCU&amp;c=9dVpz57pjzA-Nzk1xXjzZ7DhZwyz5iVP_4k8NEaSGM5KATX-_8dJog==&amp;ch=hs33BvlMk387_1Zpf5P7SqH9anAFjz-kXQtz0gQ0UPDhYo0FSIl5mg==\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">www.toastmasters.org\/<wbr \/>semifinals<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Vrb7t6SBbi0&amp;feature=youtu.be\">New World Champion 2014 of Public Speaking!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vrb7t6SBbi0\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 title was awarded to Dananjaya Hettiarachchi from Nawala Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, with his winning speech, &#8220;I See Something.&#8221; Watch video clips from Mr. Hettiarachchi&#8217;s speech. Second- and third-place winners were, respectively, Kwong Yue Yang from Guangzhou, China, with his speech, &#8220;Four Words&#8221; and Kelly Sargeant from Houston, Texas, with her speech, &#8220;Good Bye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[36,34,35,42,19,32,33,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"tag-communication","8":"tag-confidence","9":"tag-credibility","10":"tag-dananjaya-hettiarachchi","11":"tag-public-speaking","12":"tag-speaking","13":"tag-speaking-in-public","14":"tag-speech-contest","15":"tag-toastmasters","16":"tag-toastmasters-international"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foothillstoastmasters.com\/toastie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}