{"id":752,"date":"2024-05-30T16:00:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=752"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:05:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:05:29","slug":"mystery-man-diary-1957","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=752","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMystery Man\u201d Diary 1957"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As a little treat for Guy\u2019s loyal fans, we have decided to print Guy\u2019s \u2018Pepys St Paul\u2019s Diary 1957,\u2019 which we will serialise in our forthcoming newsletters. The diary was originally handwritten and is utterly charming. Guy would have been just 18 years old when he wrote it and was already working in the Midland Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Introduction.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018It was only on January 1st that I decided I would keep a diary for the coming year 1957. I am going to attempt to set down, briefly, the individual events of each day. It is not intended to be read by anyone, except myself to whom I give permission. If anyone should read this without my consent, he (or she) is a bloody nosey parker!!! Certain references are known only to myself and this diary is kept only for my own purposes. At school the mob used to call me the \u201cMystery Man\u201d or the \u201cIce Man,\u201d so mysterious I shall be, except in this diary. G.N.S\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong> <a href=\"\/1\/?page_id=747\">January<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/1\/?page_id=742\">Febuary<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/1\/?page_id=744\">March.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"\/1\/?page_id=1165\">April.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"966\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1-966x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1-966x1024.jpg 966w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1-768x814.jpg 768w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1-1449x1536.jpg 1449w, https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/MysteryMan-1.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 966px) 100vw, 966px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a little treat for Guy\u2019s loyal fans, we have decided to print Guy\u2019s \u2018Pepys St Paul\u2019s Diary 1957,\u2019 which<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/?page_id=752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u201cMystery Man\u201d Diary 1957<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-752","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1169,"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/752\/revisions\/1169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guynsmith.com\/1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}