{"id":382,"date":"2009-01-20T21:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2015-04-14T17:57:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T21:57:24","slug":"obamas-speech-and-the-use-of-threes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/obamas-speech-and-the-use-of-threes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Speech and the Use of Threes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I thoroughly enjoyed watching <strong><em>Barack Obama<\/em><\/strong> give yet another powerful and persuasive speech today at his inauguration for presidency. He motivates, inspires and gives hope by using creative speech, story-telling devices and references to great people of the past. He also creates a vision in our heads of what a better future might actually look like and feel like. Truly uplifting and inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you that missed it or want to hear it again, it is a mere Google search away. Here is one link out of many that you can follow to read and see his speech again.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Inauguration\/story?id=6689022&amp;page=1\">http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/Inauguration\/story?id=6689022&amp;page=1 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>He is a masterful speaker and I know we can learn from his style. Pay attention to his device of <em><strong>the use of three<\/strong><\/em>. He uses three adjectives, verbs or nouns often, as I did above, to speak more poetically and retain the interest of the audience. You too can do this. Sometimes use 2 descriptors or key words, mostly use 3, and you will notice that your public speaking is improved quickly, easily and with more added persuasion.<br \/>\nEnjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many of you, I thoroughly enjoyed watching Barack Obama give yet another powerful and persuasive speech today at his inauguration for presidency. He motivates, inspires and gives hope by using creative speech, story-telling devices and references to great people of the past. He also creates a vision in our heads of what a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[534,537,564],"tags":[728,729,587,567],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-communications","category-speak-english-better","category-videos","tag-obama","tag-persuasion","tag-politics","tag-public-speaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communicationcoach.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}