{"id":85,"date":"2015-11-11T17:17:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T00:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/?p=85"},"modified":"2020-02-27T16:48:37","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T23:48:37","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"0. Welcome to This Dung Heap of Wit &#038; Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am an ex-Brit; I am a Boomer. <br \/>\nThat there should tell you all \u2018bout my humour; <br \/>\nStyle and content, frozen in time, <br \/>\nEverything\u2019s funny, but bugger-all scans.<\/p>\n<p>March 2020: I am in the process of re-purposing my website. Design is slow and life has to go on. Please come back occasionally to see if the new site is active.<\/p>\n<p><del>You should find a new post here once a week, usually on Monday. Many of my posts feed off news items that strike me and others as bizarre in some way. There&#8217;s a possibility that a few random rants might make their way onto these pages.<\/del><\/p>\n<h2>My mission statement<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>To entertain, inform, and\u2026maybe\u2026 educate using humour from a Baby Boomer perspective.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After I&#8217;d settled on the &#8220;inform&#8221; and &#8220;entertain&#8221; part, I discovered that my thinking was in line with the <u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/aboutthebbc\/insidethebbc\/whoweare\/mission_and_values\/\">BBC&#8217;s<\/a><\/u>. I guess I&#8217;m in good company!<\/p>\n<p>At some point, I plan to set up an online store so that theatre groups and individuals can purchase my plays and other ramblings.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to provide constructive commentary, advice on I can improve my writing, my website or my following.<\/p>\n<h2>Who is Kelvin D. Hatch?<\/h2>\n<p>My first play of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century was written under the pseudonym Kelvin D. Hatch. I wanted my friends to feel free to provide honest feedback on the play without having to be careful not to offend me. The ploy worked for the most part. I therefore looked upon Kelvin D. Hatch as my lucky <em>nom de plume<\/em> and decided to continue using it for my creative writing efforts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Oh! You want to know <strong><em>about<\/em> <\/strong>me&#8230; click <a href=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/introducing-kelvin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an ex-Brit; I am a Boomer. That there should tell you all \u2018bout my humour; Style and content, frozen in time, Everything\u2019s funny, but bugger-all scans. March 2020: I am in the process of re-purposing my website. Design is slow and life has to go on. Please come back occasionally to see if the new site is active&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/welcome\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/85\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reggothard.com\/kelvin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}