{"id":493,"date":"2014-04-06T21:09:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=493"},"modified":"2014-04-06T21:09:18","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T21:09:18","slug":"a-good-after-dinner-speech-anecdote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"A GOOD AFTER-DINNER SPEECH (anecdote)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em><strong>A GOOD AFTER-DINNER SPEECH<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was his first banquet, and they were making speeches. Everybody was being called on for a speech, and <em><strong>he was in mortal terror<\/strong><\/em>, for he had never made a speech in his life. An old-timer at his side cruelly suggested that he \u201cget under the table\u2014or say a prayer.\u201d His name was called and he got up with fear and trembling, and said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy friends, I never made a speech in all my\u00a0\u00a0life, and <em><strong>I\u2019m just scared nearly to death<\/strong><\/em>. A friend here beside me has suggested two things for me to do\u2014to get under the table, or to pray. Well, I couldn\u2019t <em><strong>get under the table without observation<\/strong><\/em>, and now that I am on my feet, I can\u2019t think of any other prayer to say except one that I used to hear my sister Mary say in the morning when mother called us \u2014 \u2018O Lord, how I do hate to get up!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u0418\u043d\u0442\u0435\u0440\u0435\u0441\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0438 \u043f\u043e\u043b\u0435\u0437\u043d\u044b\u0435 \u0444\u0440\u0430\u0437\u044b:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>he was in mortal terror<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>I\u2019m just scared nearly to death<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>get under the table without observation<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u0414\u043e \u0432\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0447\u0438,<\/p>\n<p>\u0414\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0440\u0438\u0439<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOOD AFTER-DINNER SPEECH It was his first banquet, and they were making speeches. Everybody was being called on for a speech, and he was in mortal terror, for he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[231,232,233,230,229],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lessons","tag-anecdote-english","tag-funny-english-story-read","tag-with-comments","tag-230","tag-229"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.englishtest.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}