{"id":141,"date":"2013-05-16T15:09:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T15:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/?p=141"},"modified":"2014-07-08T14:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T14:57:40","slug":"edward-thelen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/2013\/05\/16\/edward-thelen\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Thelen &#8217;96"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We had our Toastmasters District 35 (state of Wisconsin) conference last weekend.\u00a0 At this conference, we hand out awards for the Toastmasters year (many District do this in the fall after the Toastmasters year has finished, but since the winners of the three Toastmasters recognized awards \u2013 Area Governor of the Year, Division Governor of the Year and Toastmaster of the Year used to be published in The Toastmaster magazine over the summer this still created some suspense).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To my excitement and surprise, I was selected by our top District officers as the 2012-2013 Toastmaster of the Year for District 35!\u00a0 I received a nice memento of my achievement.\u00a0 It is one of the proudest accomplishments I have achieved after my college degrees and passing the CPA exam.\u00a0 However, it would not have been possible without the support of many fellow Toastmasters who believe that I could accomplish a lot in the organization.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/2013\/05\/16\/edward-thelen\/thelen-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-142\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-142\" alt=\"thelen 1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-1-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"417\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-2-1024x7681.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-165 aligncenter\" alt=\"thelen-2-1024x768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-2-1024x7681-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-2-1024x7681-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-2-1024x7681-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/files\/2013\/05\/thelen-2-1024x7681.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had our Toastmasters District 35 (state of Wisconsin) conference last weekend.\u00a0 At this conference, we hand out awards for the Toastmasters year (many District do this in the fall after the Toastmasters year has finished, but since the winners &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/2013\/05\/16\/edward-thelen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/1996classnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}