I’ve decided to make this blog active and use it to write about some of the issues I care about. I’ve been using it as a kind of administrative tool for things which don’t easily fit on other parts of ArtsJournal, but there are ideas I’d like to explore through my writing, and diacritical seems like the place to do it. So I’m going to try posting more or less once a day and see if I can get into the routine of it. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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