What is the point of this article other than an opportunity for the author to blow his own trumpet?

Tell her to shake him, and then he will blow his trumpet.

Famous, he is, but he's never been one to blow his own trumpet.

I wish he'd just state the facts and stop blowing his own trumpet so much, it would be a lot more convincing.

It's vital to blow your own trumpet but to play an good tune as you do so!

So I was blowing my own trumpet a bit.

For too long we Christians have heard the modern world blowing its own trumpet.

"The reason for having an embargo is to be able to blow one's own trumpet a bit," he added.

But everybody ran down England, because she didn't slop over, or blow her own trumpet.

Enough blowing our own trumpet - March was a busy month on children's books.