{"id":341,"date":"2010-09-14T08:36:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T15:47:38","slug":"where-im-writing-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/miscellaneous\/where-im-writing-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I&#8217;m Writing From"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked to write a bio, I feel like I&#8217;m impersonating someone  important and probably dead.\u00a0 The truth is, I&#8217;m a lucky girl who grew up  in a loving home, made it through school, married someone great and  started my own family.\u00a0 All the stuff about nuns, sandbox spiders,  Alateen, my dog dying, volleyball and squash, the bakery, capsizing on  Lake Nipigon, physics, singing in Ferrara, childbirth, teaching, my  first kiss, and scuba diving slides into the deep background when I sit  on my couch, imagining.\u00a0 These days, I&#8217;m nudging the first inchoate  ideas of Book 3 in the Birthmarked trilogy, and just now I&#8217;m writing  this bio.\u00a0 Poison ivy itches on my left arm, I&#8217;m wearing my dad&#8217;s soft  blue sweater, it&#8217;s raining quietly outside my open window, and when I  finish this, I&#8217;ll go eat some cereal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-342\" title=\"Author Caragh O'Brien\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/img_caragh.jpg\" alt=\"Author Caragh O'Brien\" width=\"370\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/img_caragh.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/img_caragh-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked to write a bio, I feel like I&#8217;m impersonating someone important and probably dead.\u00a0 The truth is, I&#8217;m a lucky girl who grew up in a loving home, made it through school, married someone great and started my own family.\u00a0 All the stuff about nuns, sandbox spiders, Alateen, my dog dying, volleyball and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}