{"id":8781,"date":"2025-05-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=8781"},"modified":"2025-04-28T16:42:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T20:42:25","slug":"vera-koo-on-public-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/vera-koo-on-public-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"VERA KOO ON PUBLIC SPEAKING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In NRA Action Pistol competition, Vera Koo was one of the greats.\u00a0 Before she retired from I lost count of how many times she won High Woman there, and frankly she beat most of the men, too, including yours truly. But public speaking was not her game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.womensoutdoornews.com\/2025\/03\/vera-koo-on-conquering-the-fear-of-public-speaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">She writes movingly<\/a> about how she overcame her fears and delivered an excellent and well-received talk this year at the firearms industry\u2019s biggest trade show, SHOT, the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade event in Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vera Koo is an inspiration in more ways than one. Read her excellent book, which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Gx5joD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">find here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In NRA Action Pistol competition, Vera Koo was one of the greats.\u00a0 Before she retired from I lost count of how many times she won High Woman there, and frankly she beat most of the men, too, including yours truly. But public speaking was not her game. She writes movingly about how she overcame her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8781","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8785,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8781\/revisions\/8785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}