{"id":2,"date":"2023-02-23T05:27:35","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T17:40:38","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/sample-page\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Many years ago, in the long-before times of elementary school, I wrote a Goal List for myself. Between &#8220;Get 500 Accelerated Reader Points&#8221; (which won me my own Walkman!) and &#8220;Marry a Good Husband,&#8221; I included the goal of &#8220;Write a Book.&#8221; I had no idea at the time how lofty that goal truly was, but I instinctively knew I wanted to be a writer even in those early years. I&#8217;ve dreamed for a long time about walking into a bookstore to find my own work sitting on the shelf. Praise the Lord, that dream will become a reality in June 2027 with the release of my debut novel, <em>53<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love words &#8211; reading them, writing them, editing them. I also love wearing armor, swinging swords, and creating new costumes and gear. It should be no surprise then that my writing tends to lean toward fantasy. I also love the Lord Jesus Christ, and I want my stories to delve into deep questions of faith through my fantastical worlds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If I&#8217;m not writing, I&#8217;m juggling life as a wife, mom, employee, and behind-the-scenes helper at church. I also have entirely too many crafty hobbies. Is there such a thing as too much yarn? Gosh, I hope not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some random facts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Favorite beverage &#8211; Peppermint mocha latte<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Favorite snack &#8211; Buncha Crunch<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Favorite season &#8211; Close tie between spring and autumn<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Place I&#8217;d like to visit &#8211; Scotland!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>LARP or Tabletop? &#8211; It&#8217;s gotta be LARP, though I love collecting dice for tabletop games \ud83d\ude00<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Favorite  book of the Bible &#8211; James<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many years ago, in the long-before times of elementary school, I wrote a Goal List for myself. Between &#8220;Get 500 Accelerated Reader Points&#8221; (which won me my own Walkman!) and &#8220;Marry a Good Husband,&#8221; I included the goal of &#8220;Write a Book.&#8221; I had no idea at the time how lofty that goal truly was, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mepwrites.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}