{"id":1295,"date":"2011-12-28T10:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-28T10:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/presentation-skills-blog.co.uk\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2011-12-28T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-12-28T10:03:50","slug":"christmas-crisis-for-presenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/christmas-crisis-for-presenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas crisis for presenting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long term readers will know that I advocate warming up your lip\/face\/jaw\/stuff before you start to make your presentation; it makes your diction clearer, making you easier for your audience to understand you.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s particularly important to do this if<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px;\">you&#8217;re using microphones and so on<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px;\">your first language isn&#8217;t the one you&#8217;re presenting in<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"line-height: 18px;\">your audience&#8217;s first language isn&#8217;t the one you&#8217;re presenting in!<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So far so good.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a problem&#8230;.!<\/p>\n<p>Suppose you have had a bit of an accident over Christmas that resulted in an emergency trip to hospital with facial burns on Christmas Day, how would you do the warm up. This isn&#8217;t me, you understand, it&#8217;s a friend of mind. Honest.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be so stupid as to get my face burned.<\/p>\n<p>Honest.<\/p>\n<p>But it pretty much puts a stop to the facial warm-ups and stretches I&#8217;d normally do! \u00a0:(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long term readers will know that I advocate warming up your lip\/face\/jaw\/stuff before you start to make your presentation; it makes your diction clearer, making you easier for your audience to understand you. It&#8217;s particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-blog-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}