{"id":3886,"date":"2012-09-14T21:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T02:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=3886"},"modified":"2017-12-08T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:03:22","slug":"a-tale-of-two-speeches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/?p=3886","title":{"rendered":"A Tale of Two Speeches"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3887\" style=\"width: 485px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3887\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3887\" title=\"SU alum Travis Mason (right) giving an award to Dr. Cornel West during a AAMC event in 2005.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mason-west-su05.jpg\" alt=\"SU alum Travis Mason (right) giving an award to Dr. Cornel West during a AAMC event in 2005.\" width=\"475\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mason-west-su05.jpg 475w, https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/mason-west-su05-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-3887\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SU alum Travis Mason (right) giving an award to Dr. Cornel West\u00a0in 2005.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This post is about two people: one rising star and one Academy Award-winner.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also about two speeches that were given\u00a0about one week apart.\u00a0 One speech was given at a\u00a0college convocation; the other at a political convention. One speech is about education; the other is about politics. One speech was given in Syracuse by Travis Mason, a government affairs analyst at Google; the other speech\u00a0was given by actor\/director Clint\u00a0Eastwood\u00a0in Tampa.<\/p>\n<p>Can you guess which speech was\u00a0most effective?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about two people: one rising star and one Academy Award-winner. It&#8217;s also about two speeches that were given\u00a0about one week apart.\u00a0 One speech was given at a\u00a0college convocation; the other at a political convention. One speech is about education; the other is about politics. One speech was given in Syracuse by Travis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[1786,2319,2314,26,5007,2316,64,2317,2318,2315],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3886"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23838,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3886\/revisions\/23838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sif.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}