{"id":706,"date":"2006-10-28T07:59:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-28T12:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=706"},"modified":"2020-01-03T13:53:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T18:53:52","slug":"love-that-word-of-mouth-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/love-that-word-of-mouth-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Love that word of mouth, too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a thrill when the dog training book I co-wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/another-reason-i-love-the-british\/\">gets a mention in the press<\/a>, of course, but I also love when someone says something like this, which I just found in a dog training forum (Terry Ryan is the trainer I teamed up with to write <em>Outwitting Dogs<\/em>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I second Sandra on the Terry Ryan book, i just bought it and im hooked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to assign a value to writing quality, and it happens that Terry (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legacycanine.com\/\">her website is here<\/a>) is a gifted and experienced dog trainer; there&#8217;s no question that the enthusiasm shown by people who read it are in large part due to the quality of the content. The lady knows what she&#8217;s doing when it comes to dogs!<\/p>\n<p>But I like to think that my contribution &#8212; in terms of the organization, clarity of the writing, and tone of the book &#8212; are playing a part in the book&#8217;s success as well ;-)<\/p>\n<p>\/end shameless self-promotion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a thrill when the dog training book I co-wrote gets a mention in the press, of course, but I also love when someone says something like this, which I just found in a dog training forum (Terry Ryan is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/love-that-word-of-mouth-too\/\">Continue reading <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":[9,8],"tags":[737,455,456,251],"class_list":["post-706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-dogs","tag-book-review","tag-dog-training","tag-dogs","tag-outwitting-dogs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6146,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions\/6146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}