{"id":16828,"date":"2015-11-01T07:30:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-01T15:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tonhyakae.com\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2015-11-01T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T19:37:39","slug":"way-up-north-omfg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/way-up-north-omfg\/","title":{"rendered":"WAY UP NORTH. OMFG."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is this some sort of sick practical joke?!<\/p>\n<p>My introverted, awkward, President of the Public Speaking Haters Club wants to believe that this actually is some joke and any second Ashton is going to pop up on my computer screen and say I seriously got PUNK&#8217;D&#8230;.BUT, my sweet friends, it&#8217;s true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I will be speaking (or passing out) at WAY UP NORTH 2016 in ROME, ITALY!!!!!! Holy eff. Somebody pinch me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Words can&#8217;t begin to express how grateful I am to have been chosen for such an awesome event. The Way Up North event that just went down in Sweden was a huge success and I&#8217;m so excited to be a part of something so inspiring to artists around the world. I&#8217;m excited to learn from the other speakers, explore a city I&#8217;ve never been to, and of course meet so many new people. <em>(can you tell I&#8217;m trying to avoid the main part&#8230;speaking in front of hundreds of humans?!)<\/em> Mark your calendars for <strong>April 11th and 12th<\/strong> and start saving up to make your way out. Come hang out with me and the rest of the amazing speakers.<\/p>\n<p>And for those of you who are like&#8230;<strong><em>&#8220;who the hell is this girl?!&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> That is a great question. You can find out a little more about me, my life, my travels, and my work by browsing around this site or checking out my <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/tonhyakae\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>. Orrrrr you can also follow along my new-ish travel\/lifestyle <a href=\"http:\/\/thetopknot.co\" target=\"_blank\">blog<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/_thetopknot\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> if your heart so desires.<\/p>\n<p>Go check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/wayupnorth.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">WAY UP NORTH<\/a> website to be the first to know all the fun details for Rome! It&#8217;s going to be an amazing time and I can&#8217;t wait to meet so many new faces. Just promise me one thing guys&#8230;<strong>you&#8217;ll laugh at all my jokes, even if they&#8217;re not funny<\/strong>&#8230;AND you&#8217;ll pretend you don&#8217;t notice my shaky <strong><em>omg-why-does-she-sound-like-she-is-about-to-cry<\/em><\/strong> voice when speaking! Mmmmkay, thanks love you guys.<\/p>\n<p>xo<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16829\" src=\"http:\/\/tonhyakaeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_01.jpg\" alt=\"blog_01\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_01.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_01-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16830\" src=\"http:\/\/tonhyakaeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_02.jpg\" alt=\"blog_02\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_02.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_02-200x300.jpg 200w, 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srcset=\"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_12.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_12-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16841\" src=\"http:\/\/tonhyakaeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_13.jpg\" alt=\"blog_13\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_13.jpg 800w, https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_13-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16842\" src=\"http:\/\/tonhyakaeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/30-16828-post\/blog_14.jpg\" alt=\"blog_14\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" 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My introverted, awkward, President of the Public Speaking Haters Club wants to believe that this actually is some joke and any second Ashton is going to pop up on my computer screen and say I seriously got PUNK&#8217;D&#8230;.BUT, my sweet friends, it&#8217;s true&#8230; I will be speaking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,404,375,4,3,6,229,5],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16858,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions\/16858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tonhyakae.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}