{"id":189,"date":"2012-03-27T16:34:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=189"},"modified":"2012-08-11T05:03:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:03:58","slug":"first-some-words-of-thanks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"FIRST: SOME WORDS OF THANKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-191\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-Thomas-Seidman-Cape-Cod-1995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-191\" title=\"Chris-Ripley-Thomas-Seidman-Cape-Cod-1995\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-Thomas-Seidman-Cape-Cod-1995-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Ripley &amp; Thomas Seidman, Cape Cod 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I would like to take this opportunity to thank my friend Mr. Christopher Ripley for purchasing the thomasseidman.com domain name, setting me up with WordPress, and encouraging me to expand my presence on the World Wide Web. His book&#8211;<a title=\"Chris Ripley's Online Marketing 101\" href=\"http:\/\/chrisripley.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Chris Ripley&#8217;s Online Marketing 101: No-Nonsense Guide To Marketing Your Business Online<\/em><\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong>&#8211;has encouraged me in pursuing my own literary pursuits and is a fine primer for understanding the craft and nuances of marketing in the Internet age.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_339\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-339\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-339\" title=\"Chris Ripley 101 cover\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-cover-649x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-cover-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-cover-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-cover.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-339\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris Ripley&#8217;s Online Marketing 101 (cover page)<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 594px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-inside-cover-w-sig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-340\" title=\"Chris Ripley 101 inside cover w sig\" src=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-inside-cover-w-sig-631x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"947\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-inside-cover-w-sig-631x1024.jpg 631w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-inside-cover-w-sig-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Chris-Ripley-101-inside-cover-w-sig.jpg 952w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Chris Ripley&#8217;s Online Marketing 101 (inside cover)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to take this opportunity to thank my friend Mr. Christopher Ripley for purchasing the thomasseidman.com domain name, setting me up with WordPress, and encouraging me to expand my presence on the World Wide Web. His book&#8211;Chris Ripley&#8217;s Online Marketing 101: No-Nonsense Guide To Marketing Your Business Online&#8211;has encouraged me in pursuing my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FIRST: SOME WORDS OF THANKS<\/span> <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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}