{"id":1271,"date":"2020-09-25T03:33:46","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T03:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/chapter\/pacing\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T17:33:53","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T17:33:53","slug":"pacing","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-publicspeaking\/chapter\/pacing\/","title":{"raw":"Pacing","rendered":"Pacing"},"content":{"raw":"<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-260\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2025\/2017\/07\/10205220\/stopwatch.png\" alt=\"decorative image\" width=\"200\" height=\"212\" \/>\r\n\r\nPublic Speaking is designed to be flexible to meet a wide-variety of course designs. If you are designing a 12 or 15 week course, please see the Course Design Notes below this chart. 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