{"id":15707,"date":"2026-03-09T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15707"},"modified":"2026-03-09T03:25:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T03:25:56","slug":"lou-holtz-give-a-great-short-funny-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15707","title":{"rendered":"Lou Holtz give a great, short, funny speech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn&#8217;t say where it is.  Here&#8217;s what I posted <a href=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15692\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=15692\">a couple of days<\/a> ago when it was announced he&#8217;d died.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Most Powerful Speech: The 3 Rules to a Less Complicated Life | Lou Holtz | Goalcast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8YFTJuJkrts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This looks like a University Commencement speech but it doesn&#8217;t say where it is. Here&#8217;s what I posted a couple of days ago when it was announced he&#8217;d died. &#8220;I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-stuff","category-family-stuff","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15707"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15710,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15707\/revisions\/15710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}