{"id":448,"date":"2012-06-17T22:46:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/?page_id=448"},"modified":"2026-05-25T18:04:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:04:42","slug":"welcome-to-my-website","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to my website!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/oj.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-128\" title=\"oj\" src=\"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/oj-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greetings and salutations. Thanks for stopping by scatteredflurries.com, your one-stop website for all things Dan Hershfield!<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s your lucky day, because what you may not have known about this website is you get two websites in one.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ll check out the menu to the right, you&#8217;ll see links to a lot of &#8216;personal website&#8217; things. Such as videos and writing samples for your amusement and edification.<\/p>\n<p>But just below those links, you&#8217;ll see ones for the blog part of this site.\u00a0 Admittedly, this blog began as a way to keep family and friends posted on my adventures aboard the Norwegian Jewel when I was part of a traveling Second City cast; since my return, it has been maintained far more sporadically. But it is updated with enough regularity that it remains the best way to know what I&#8217;ve been up to without actually talking to me!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find whatever it is you came here to see, and if not, well, that&#8217;s what the &#8220;Contact&#8221; page is for.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and if you haven&#8217;t signed up for Upping the Tempo, my weekly newsletter about the Toronto Tempo and related matters, no more excuses:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #EEE; background: white;\" src=\"https:\/\/uppingthetempo.substack.com\/embed\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and salutations. Thanks for stopping by scatteredflurries.com, your one-stop website for all things Dan Hershfield! And it&#8217;s your lucky day, because what you may not have known about this website is you get two websites in one. If you&#8217;ll check out the menu to the right, you&#8217;ll see links to a lot of &#8216;personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2122,"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions\/2122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scatteredflurries.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}