{"id":2228,"date":"2012-03-29T01:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T01:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=2228"},"modified":"2012-04-08T12:15:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T12:15:56","slug":"artem-ponomarev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=2228","title":{"rendered":"Artem Ponomarev"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Artem-Ponomarev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2229\" title=\"Artem Ponomarev\" src=\"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Artem-Ponomarev-655x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend Artem Ponomarev is an immigrant from the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia and a member of my local toastmaster club. Over the past few weeks I have had the privilege of coaching him through some preliminary rounds of Toastmasters&#8217; International Speech contest. Tonight he won our Division contest against strong competition. Congratulations to Art for a job well done!! On to the District contest at the end of April in Vaudreuil, Quebec where he&#8217;ll be one of a handful of finalists representing 220 clubs in Toastmasters International&#8217;s only bilingual, bi-national District!!<\/p>\n<p>Good luck, Artem!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Artem Ponomarev is an immigrant from the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia and a member of my local toastmaster club. Over the past few weeks I have had the privilege of coaching him through some preliminary rounds of Toastmasters&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=2228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}