{"id":52,"date":"2007-01-08T22:37:53","date_gmt":"2007-01-08T21:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/2007\/01\/08\/standing-ovation\/"},"modified":"2007-01-08T22:37:53","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T21:37:53","slug":"standing-ovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/standing-ovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing ovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta http-equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" \/><title \/><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"OpenOffice.org 1.1.3  (Linux)\" \/><meta name=\"CREATED\" content=\"20070108;21361600\" \/><meta name=\"CHANGED\" content=\"16010101;0\" \/> \t \t \t \t \t<\/p>\n<style> \t<!-- \t\t@page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } \t--> \t<\/style>\n<p>Just a quick note today &#8211; to comment that for the first time in as long as I care to remember, I stood up to applaud after a <a title=\"Degrees\" href=\"http:\/\/politics.guardian.co.uk\/development\/story\/0,,1985396,00.html\">speech.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Everything about the presentation was right &#8211; the use of <span lang=\"en-GB\">rhetoric<\/span>, the passion, the articulation, the fact that the speaker understood microphones and how to use them, the fact that he didn&#8217;t look like he had his speech written down verbatim (I couldn&#8217;t see if he did or not)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and the content of course. It&#8217;s hard to argue with the sentiment of a speech that says, basically, &#8220;<strong>Let us be the generation that provides a free school place for every child in the world, everywhere. Let it be us.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And who was this miracle man? Gordon Brown. Normally a man noted for his somewhat taciturn nature but certainly on this subject he was passionate! He combined all the technical skills that you&#8217;d expect with an experience, trained political heavy-weight, with the raw excitement of a committed man.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the way to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note today &#8211; to comment that for the first time in as long as I care to remember, I stood up to applaud after a speech. Everything about the presentation was right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}