{"id":3,"date":"2011-09-23T09:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T16:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/?p=3"},"modified":"2011-09-23T11:48:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T18:48:25","slug":"welcome-to-dear-diary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/welcome-to-dear-diary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to &#8220;Dear Diary&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Diary,<\/p>\n<p>Today marks the launch of YOU, diary&#8230; a place where I&#8217;ll share good ideas, bad jokes, great recipes, other people&#8217;s poetry and bits and bobs about my life.<\/p>\n<p>And diary, I hope a few friends might stop in every so often to see what I&#8217;m up to, and share their own news, too.<\/p>\n<p>Readers, welcome.<\/p>\n<p>And before I go a moment further, a few thanks: to Tim, Keith and the gang at DHX Advertising for their work on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marymac.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.marymac.com<\/a> and the Diary&#8230; see their work at <a title=\"DHX Advertising\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dhxadv.com\" target=\"_blank\">dhxadv.com<\/a>; to Kevin Ginger at KGinger Consulting for his support&#8230; look for him at <a title=\"KGinger Consulting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kginger.com\" target=\"_blank\">kginger.com<\/a>; to Owen Carey for making me look so good &#8211; check him out at <a title=\"Owen Carey Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.owencareyphoto.com\" target=\"_blank\">owencareyphoto.com<\/a>&#8230; and to the inimitable Steve Alexander for being the best darn editor and amanuensis a girl could ever ask for.\u00a0 He&#8217;s at <a href=\"mailto:redcat.steve@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">redcat.steve@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, to Madeline for being Madeline, and to Finnegan and Sullivan for always wagging their tails when I come home.\u00a0 (That&#8217;s Sully in the photo, by the way!)<\/p>\n<p>Yours,<\/p>\n<p>MaryMac<\/p>\n<p>PS Want to know what I really get up to when I&#8217;m working as dialect coach?\u00a0 Take a look!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"On set with Mary Mac.mp4\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AwRUqao4YPo?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><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Diary, Today marks the launch of YOU, diary&#8230; a place where I&#8217;ll share good ideas, bad jokes, great recipes, other people&#8217;s poetry and bits and bobs about my life. And diary, I hope a few friends might stop in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/23\/welcome-to-dear-diary-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dialect-gigs","category-from-me-to-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marymac.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}