{"id":257,"date":"2011-03-30T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/a-reader-compared-me-to-debbie-macomber.html"},"modified":"2013-09-30T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T15:54:58","slug":"reader-compared-me-to-debbie-macomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/reader-compared-me-to-debbie-macomber\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reader Compared Me To Debbie Macomber! :-)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1dzooLHEBYA\/TZMHH08FIXI\/AAAAAAAAEL4\/MBB1AkYk8wU\/s1600\/chesapeake_weddings.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-1dzooLHEBYA\/TZMHH08FIXI\/AAAAAAAAEL4\/MBB1AkYk8wU\/s200\/chesapeake_weddings.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I received the following email recently from a reader:<\/p>\n<p><i>Hi Cecelia ~<br \/>\nI must tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed Cheasapeake Weddings&#8211;John&#8217;s Quest, Milk Money and Bittersweet Memories. I don&#8217;t know which is my favorite. I&#8217;ve enjoyed them all! I love the way you write&#8211;so clean, sweet and memorable. <b>Reminds me of Debbie Maccomber.<\/b> <\/i><\/p>\n<p>~Beverly Taylor~<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for the awesome email, Beverly! I enjoyed hearing about how much you enjoyed my stories and I loved that you compared me to Debbie! She&#8217;s a great author, and I&#8217;ve never had anybody to compare me to her before!<\/p>\n<p><i><b><a href=\"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\">~Cecelia Dowdy~<br \/>\n<\/a><\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received the following email recently from a reader: Hi Cecelia ~ I must tell you that I thoroughly enjoyed Cheasapeake Weddings&#8211;John&#8217;s Quest, Milk Money and Bittersweet Memories. I don&#8217;t know which is my favorite. I&#8217;ve enjoyed them all! I love the way you write&#8211;so clean, sweet and memorable. Reminds me of Debbie Maccomber. ~Beverly [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60,35,41,86,59,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bittersweet-memories","category-cecelia-dowdys-books","category-chesapeake-weddings","category-debbie-macomber","category-johns-quest","category-milk-money"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paovYP-49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2154,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/2154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ceceliadowdy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}