{"id":2187,"date":"2014-02-24T14:16:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2014-02-24T14:16:26","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T14:16:26","slug":"esu-south-wales-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"ESU South Wales Luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<!-- Facebook Like Button v1.9.6 BEGIN [http:\/\/blog.bottomlessinc.com] -->\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Falalay.co.uk%2F%3Fp%3D2187&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height: 30px; align: left; margin: 2px 0px 2px 0px\"><\/iframe>\n<!-- Facebook Like Button END -->\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_220_FJ-0431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2188 alignright\" alt=\"2014_220_FJ 043(1)\" src=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_220_FJ-0431-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_220_FJ-0431-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/2014_220_FJ-0431.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to the South Wales Branch of the English Speaking Union for their kind invitation for me to speak at their luncheon last week, held at Cardiff City Stadium. Over 100 people attended and mine was one of four short presentations from people who had been sponsored by the branch in the last year.<\/p>\n<p>The photo on the right shows Sandra Skinner (Chair of Hay2Timbuktu charity), Captain Sir Norman Lloyd-Edwards (ESU branch President and past Lord Lieutenant of South Glamorgan), myself, Alexander Palmer (outstanding second year Shakespearian student at the RWCMD) and Anna Rose Thomas (2013 National Schools Public Speaking Competition winner).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to the South Wales Branch of the English Speaking Union for their kind invitation for me to speak at their luncheon last week, held at Cardiff City Stadium. Over 100 people attended and mine was one of four &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/?p=2187\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alalay.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}