{"id":646,"date":"2007-03-10T22:06:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T21:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dickonedwards.co.uk\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/acknowlegements\/"},"modified":"2007-03-12T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-12T11:41:17","slug":"acknowlegements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/archive\/acknowlegements\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowlegements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I feel it&#8217;s about time I thanked a few people for recent help and generosity.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks be to, in no particular order:<\/p>\n<p>The London Library Trust, for approving my application to one of their grants, without which I couldn&#8217;t have afforded the membership fee. It probably wasn&#8217;t the President himself, Tom Stoppard, who handled the application. But I like to think it was.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lesley Hall, for being my referee in the above application.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Neil Scott, for maintaining and upgrading this website, transferring it to the new hosting server, and for generally knowing about such things.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Rhodri Marsden, for providing the aforementioned new hosting and associated help.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lecool.com\/london\/\">Le Cool London<\/a>, for calling me &#8216;one of London&#8217;s favourite characters&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Julian Lawton for putting &#8216;Scorpio Rising&#8217; onto DVD for me.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gary Cook, for designing the current Beautiful &amp; Damned flyer.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lawrence Gullo, for the flyer before that.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Laurence A Hughes, for remote-control guidance and discipline.<\/p>\n<p>Mr T Chipping, for sending me the Sondheim interview and massive hardback biography of Diana Ross.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Gerry O&#8217;Boyle, Miss Red, Miss Lou and all at The Boogaloo for their continuing kindness and patronage in general.<\/p>\n<p>Mr MacGowan and Ms Clarke for their supreme generosity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and my long-suffering mother and father who have frequently, suffice it to say, kept me Out Of Trouble. Or at least, the more dull forms of Trouble.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the most recent lot.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel it&#8217;s about time I thanked a few people for recent help and generosity. Thanks be to, in no particular order: The London Library Trust, for approving my application to one of their grants, without which I couldn&#8217;t have afforded the membership fee. It probably wasn&#8217;t the President himself, Tom Stoppard, who handled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dickonedwards.com\/diary\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}