{"id":5,"date":"2015-03-23T03:41:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T03:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kathrynberlabooks.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2020-02-23T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T05:33:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-508 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kathy-Berla-author-photo-248x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kathy-Berla-author-photo-248x300.jpeg 248w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kathy-Berla-author-photo-768x928.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kathy-Berla-author-photo-847x1024.jpeg 847w, https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Kathy-Berla-author-photo.jpeg 1120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>A bird once landed on my head while I was standing in my backyard minding my own business. I\u2019ve taken it as a sign ever since but have yet to figure out what it means.<\/p>\n<p>I once guessed the exact number of jellybeans in a jar during a party game. 228. The prize was nothing compared to the feeling of satisfaction it gave me.<\/p>\n<p>After all these years, I still believe in love at first sight and happily ever after.<\/p>\n<p>I like the idea of cats but prefer the reality of dogs.<\/p>\n<p>At one point in my childhood my pet entourage included: two dogs, two ducks, four sheep, multiple chickens, an ever-changing number of rabbits, and a crow with a broken wing named Beaky.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m a long-term resident of the perfectly imperfect San Francisco Bay Area and can\u2019t imagine living anywhere else.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-134 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/homepage-picture.jpg\" width=\"212\" height=\"335\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/kathrynberlabooks.com\/media\/books.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bird once landed on my head while I was standing in my backyard minding my own business. I\u2019ve taken it as a sign ever since but have yet to figure out what it means. I once guessed the exact number of jellybeans in a jar during a party game. 228. The prize was nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":786,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynberlabooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}