{"id":566,"date":"2016-06-17T01:09:00","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/2016\/06\/17\/my-new-about-me-script\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T01:09:00","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:09:00","slug":"my-new-about-me-script-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/2016\/06\/17\/my-new-about-me-script-2\/","title":{"rendered":"My New About Me Script"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized I don&#8217;t have a real about me page. I mean, I&#8217;ve got my <i>huge<\/i>&nbsp;&#8220;L-O-N-G, Drawn-out Me,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t like that. If people wanted my life&#8217;s history, they&#8217;d go to Wikipedia where they&#8217;d find nothing.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Therefore I bring you my actual, better, &#8220;about me&#8221; page. Shorter, simpler, sweeter &#8211; trust me, I thought about sugar while writing that sentence, so it&#8217;s super-sweet.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p><b>My writing name is T. D. Speirs, but most people know me by their own variation of the name &#8220;Tim.&#8221;<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p><b>Ever since at least second grade, I&#8217;ve loved the idea of the written word: the creation behind it, the play on words, the stories that can be told. Ever since eighth grade, I&#8217;ve known I wanted to be an author.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p><b>Aside from a couple of poems, my site and a little bit of research hooha, I&#8217;m unpublished as of yet. I hope to change that comparatively soon, and I&#8217;m in the process of agent-hunting. As for genre, I write realistic fantasy for children.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<blockquote><p><b>Born in Manhattan, Kansas (&#8220;the Little Apple&#8221;), I&#8217;ve recently returned there and currently work at a library. Someday you&#8217;ll see my books in there.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>There you have it folks. What do you think?<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">* * * * *<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for a while: if anyone wants to write a post for my site, you&#8217;re welcome to do so. If it meets my seal of approval, I&#8217;ll post it. And no, I&#8217;m not begging for posts; I simply figure it doesn&#8217;t hurt to give people that opportunity if they want it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just realized I don&#8217;t have a real about me page. I mean, I&#8217;ve got my huge&nbsp;&#8220;L-O-N-G, Drawn-out Me,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t like that. If people wanted my life&#8217;s history, they&#8217;d go to Wikipedia where they&#8217;d find nothing. Therefore I bring you my actual, better, &#8220;about me&#8221; page. Shorter, simpler, sweeter &#8211; trust me, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-30-days-30-posts","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tdspeirs.com\/oldblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}