{"id":216046,"date":"2014-04-15T17:54:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T17:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/iamianto-bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T22:13:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T22:13:55","slug":"iamianto-bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/iamianto-bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-216046 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/iamianto-bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little\/attachment\/216047\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n41ucypfMC1sfqtjso1_640-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n41ucypfMC1sfqtjso1_640-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/tumblr_n41ucypfMC1sfqtjso1_640-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/iamianto.tumblr.com\/post\/82747309024\/bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little-guy-in-the\" target=\"_blank\">iamianto<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Bragging a bit\u2026 So I drew this little guy in the middle for Ian to sign since I had no picture to send and didn\u2019t want to send a demand letter for an autograph alone.\u00a0 I told him I\u2019d be happy to have him sign it (or would gladly trade for a spare picture of himself he had lying around). My letter outlined my three favorite roles he\u2019s done that I\u2019ve seen and how I hope to see him perform live one day.\u00a0 Today I received my caricature (signed \u201cTo Jessica, with love and best wishes, Ian Hallard), a 4&#215;6 headshot with the same signature, and a handwritten note that extends to the back of the page.<\/p>\n<p>The letter reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>London, 6\/4\/14<\/p>\n<p>Dear Jessica,<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for your letter. Lovely to hear from you and for your kindness about my performances. Glad you\u2019ve enjoyed them so far. All 3 of the roles you\u2019ve mentioned have happy memories for me.<\/p>\n<p>Pantomime is such a British tradition over here &#8211; and I had a wonderful time in \u2018Snow White.\u2019 Equally, the part in \u2018Doctors\u2019 was a gift for an actor: lovely to be able to sign in it and also to use my native Birmingham accent. And as an Agatha Christie fan of many years to get to appear as a suspect in \u2018Poirot\u2019 was so thrilling.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ll make it to Texas to perform, but if it\u2019s in the pipeline, I will be sure to tweet about it!<\/p>\n<p>Very best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Ian x<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m so very thrilled that he took the time to write such a detailed letter and sign both my drawing and a photo of himself. That was incredibly sweet of him and I\u2019m going to be internally squeeing for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p>The letter and my drawing did get a little crunched because my postman can\u2019t read where it says DO NOT BEND on the envelope\u2026 dick head\u2026 but otherwise, it\u2019s perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Ian Hallard, for being awesome.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iamianto: Bragging a bit\u2026 So I drew this little guy in the middle for Ian to sign since I had no picture to send and didn\u2019t want to send a demand letter for an autograph alone.\u00a0 I told him I\u2019d be happy to have him sign it (or would gladly trade for a spare picture &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2014\/04\/15\/iamianto-bragging-a-bit-so-i-drew-this-little\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[74,1297,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216046"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216048,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216046\/revisions\/216048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}