{"id":981,"date":"2013-10-29T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T01:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/?p=981"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:41:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T00:41:29","slug":"flashback-first-50-toastmasters-clubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/29\/flashback-first-50-toastmasters-clubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: The first 50 Toastmasters clubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oldbooks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-985\" alt=\"oldbooks\" src=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oldbooks-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>David Lewtas, the Toastmasters District 32 historian, has compiled an excellent history of the first 50 clubs. With his kind permission, I share it here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fascinating review of how these clubs got started, and how those low numbers occasionally got re-used for other clubs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/TOASTMASTERS-ORIGINAL-50-CLUBS-October-4-2013.pdf\">Toastmasters International Original 50 Chartered Clubs<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Lewtas, the Toastmasters District 32 historian, has compiled an excellent history of the first 50 clubs. With his kind permission, I share it here.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fascinating review of how these clubs got started, and how those low numbers occasionally got re-used for other clubs. Toastmasters International Original 50 Chartered Clubs (PDF)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous-toastmasters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeraffety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}