{"id":5485,"date":"2015-09-17T13:10:40","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/?p=5485"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:12:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T18:12:09","slug":"buying-a-viral-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2015\/09\/17\/buying-a-viral-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Buying a Viral Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5486\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/bVqos3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5486 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7168100174_bdc96eec20_z-e1442513346724.jpg\" alt=\"Pressure's on, kid! Isabelle Plante, Flickr CC.\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pressure&#8217;s on, kid! Isabelle Plante, Flickr CC.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Upcoming award ceremony? You may consider joining the growing number of non-politicians\u00a0hiring \u201ctoast whisperers\u201d to write public speeches.<\/p>\n<p>Sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\">Lisa Wade<\/a> recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/hire-a-pro-to-write-your-toast-speech\/35301480\">explained to News4Jax<\/a>: &#8220;I think people that purchase a speech for an event might want to impress others, and that drives them to do it.\u201d The growing importance of social media also likely contributes, as it increases \u201cthe expectation that other people will see everything we do.\u201d And if some people will see it, we want it to be good&#8212;maybe even worthy of viral video status.<\/p>\n<p>Guess we can add &#8220;Did you even write that speech?&#8221; to\u00a0our array of ways to &#8220;throw shade&#8221; in the comments sections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Upcoming award ceremony? You may consider joining the growing number of non-politicians\u00a0hiring \u201ctoast whisperers\u201d to write public speeches. Sociologist Lisa Wade recently explained to News4Jax: &#8220;I think people that purchase a speech for an event might want to impress others, and that drives them to do it.\u201d The growing importance of social media also likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2025,"featured_media":5486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39112,140,4208,38153,732],"class_list":["post-5485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-culture","tag-internet","tag-labor-market","tag-social-anxiety","tag-social-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/files\/2015\/09\/7168100174_bdc96eec20_z-e1442513346724.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2025"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5487,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5485\/revisions\/5487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}