{"id":105886,"date":"2022-06-24T00:27:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/?p=105886"},"modified":"2022-06-24T00:27:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T04:27:48","slug":"about-me-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/about-me-9\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am 70 year old pharmaceutical\u00a0 scientist living in Hyderabad, India. I retired from active research just months ago.<\/p>\n<p>I have been addicted to reading from a very tender age. Soon graduated to creative writing in English as well as my native language\u00a0 Tamil.<\/p>\n<p>My academic and professional career did not leave me much time to indulge in my passion. Now that I have time on my hand, I am very active on several Facebook platforms. I have written poetry and short stories. My work has been well received by my fellow writers and judges of the online contests.<\/p>\n<p>This has given me confidence\u00a0 to undertake this tough challenge. Counting on the support of fellow participants<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am 70 year old pharmaceutical\u00a0 scientist living in Hyderabad, India. I retired from active research just months ago. I have been addicted to reading from a very tender age. Soon graduated to creative writing in English as well as my native language\u00a0 Tamil. My&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4548,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105886"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105888,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105886\/revisions\/105888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}