{"id":523,"date":"2012-06-29T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2012.reno.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=523"},"modified":"2012-06-29T14:13:03","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T21:13:03","slug":"brian-williams","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/brian-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Williams Introduction<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Youth motivational speaker and has spoken to over 45,000 students from coast to coast<\/li>\n<li>4<sup>th<\/sup> degree black belt in Martial arts<\/li>\n<li>Attended the University of Nevada, while in attendance he was ranked \u201c#1 business student in the nation\u201d<\/li>\n<li>He has been featured on MTV, MTV2, NBC, CBS, ESPN, and in USA Today.<\/li>\n<li>He is a spokesperson for Soles4Souls, one of the fastest growing non-profits in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Received the 2009 Thornton Peace Prize and 2010 Thomas Jefferson Award for the State of Nevada<\/li>\n<li>He has collected over 30,000 shoes for needy children around the world.<\/li>\n<li>He recently produced the international documentary, \u201cTumaini Smiles\u201d and is currently working as the executive producer for the documentary, \u201cThe Roots Of Happiness\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Brian travels around the country challenging schools to compete in a 15 Days of Kindness challenge \u2013 and now, he is here to tell the story.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Williams Introduction Youth motivational speaker and has spoken to over 45,000 students from coast to coast 4th degree black belt in Martial arts Attended the University of Nevada, while in attendance he was ranked \u201c#1 business student in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/speaker\/brian-williams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brian Williams<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569348,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"bewweb313","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-523","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheXbH-8r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=24&d=mm&r=pg","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=48&d=mm&r=pg","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=96&d=mm&r=pg","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=128&d=mm&r=pg","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=256&d=mm&r=pg","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2e814d00bc9d17a1dd98eea27402fc5c38fc30044a074bfd526b6a2b8b7d2221?s=512&d=mm&r=pg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/523\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reno.wordcamp.org\/2012\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}