{"id":262,"date":"2017-06-21T08:43:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-21T08:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=262"},"modified":"2017-07-02T16:44:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:44:52","slug":"north-carolina-ffa-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=262","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina FFA Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-263 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sir-walter-raleigh-up-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sir-walter-raleigh-up-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sir-walter-raleigh-up-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/sir-walter-raleigh-up.jpg 1512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It was a treat to speak at the North Carolina FFA Convention as my alter ego &#8211; Representative Dudley Hughes who co-sponsored the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. A number of teachers told me their students really believed I was Dudley Hughes. Gray&#8217;s Creek FFA decorated the statue of Sir Walter Raleigh outside the Raleigh convention center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a treat to speak at the North Carolina FFA Convention as my alter ego &#8211; Representative Dudley Hughes who co-sponsored the Smith-Hughes Act of 1917. A number of teachers told me their students really believed I was Dudley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/?p=262\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekeynotepresenter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}