{"id":23,"date":"2026-03-27T01:36:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T01:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/?p=23"},"modified":"2026-03-28T01:27:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T01:27:05","slug":"welcome-to-michael-francis-mccarthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/?p=23","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Michael Francis McCarthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome to Michael Francis McCarthy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HZSK1xFZRFQ?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the introductory post &amp; video for my new channel and website. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here I&#8217;ll share music, thoughts on philosophy, AI, creativity, and whatever&#8217;s going on. No niche, or algorithm-chasing. This page is a window into what I&#8217;m making and thinking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warts and all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Contact: mike@mfrancismccarthy.art<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the introductory post &amp; video for my new channel and website. Here I&#8217;ll share music, thoughts on philosophy, AI, creativity, and whatever&#8217;s going on. No niche, or algorithm-chasing. This page is a window into what I&#8217;m making and thinking. Warts and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-talks","rsfv-has-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfrancismccarthy.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}