{"id":232,"date":"2011-05-02T18:27:28","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2025-08-22T14:36:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:36:42","slug":"acknowledgments","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/?page_id=232","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgments of my strong and weak ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People always ask me, when I started writing? Well, my eureka moment was surely during primary school by writing compositions and short stories. My family have been with me all the time the way since, have kept my sanity in order and gave me a lot of confidence. You need loads of it, as the way ahead is gravelly \u00a0and lonely.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your perennial support: my mum, my godmother,\u00a0my brother Roberto &#8222;Robbie&#8220; with his children Matteo and Seraina, in loving memory my\u00a0late dad, my late godfather, my late step-father, all relatives and friends in my life, too many to mention, but I love you, without you my life wouldn&#8217;t be so exciting! And of course all those diligent networkers spread over the planet!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2849\" src=\"http:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/051-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Pic by Azadeh Eshaghi<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2003 &#8211; 2025 Sina Merino &#8211; The Paper Factory Productions. All rights reserved &#8211; Alle Rechte vorbehalten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People always ask me, when I started writing? Well, my eureka moment was surely during primary school by writing compositions and short stories. My family have been with me all the time the way since, have kept my sanity in order and gave me a lot of confidence. You need loads of it, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/?page_id=232\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinamerino.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}