{"id":45643,"date":"2019-06-20T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=45643"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:23:47","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T13:23:47","slug":"introduction-h-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/introduction-h-j\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction: H.J"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, everyone!<\/p>\n<p>My name is H.J &#8211; I\u2019m an author of multiple genres, from Canada. This is my first marathon event, but I\u2019m so excited to be here!<\/p>\n<p>I was nine years old and in 4th grade when I first discovered my love for writing. By the time I reached my early teens, I knew I wanted to write professionally. Then, at 17, I wrote my first full-length project; which was self-published 2 years later.<\/p>\n<p>I began with poetry, but have no \u201cpreferred\u201d genre. I\u2019ve written everything from Children\u2019s books to Mature Fiction and memoirs. As of 2016 (on Amazon and Kobo), 3 of my 5 existing titles are rated \u201c5-stars\u201d; the other 2 have yet to be rated at all.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your time!<br \/>\nI wish the best of luck to everyone.<br \/>\nIf you\u2019re interested, you can learn more about my work\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/official-authorhj.yolasite.com\/media-gallery.php\">HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may also support me with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ko-fi.com\/authorhj\">coffee<\/a><\/strong>!<br \/>\nThanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, everyone! My name is H.J &#8211; I\u2019m an author of multiple genres, from Canada. This is my first marathon event, but I\u2019m so excited to be here! I was nine years old and in 4th grade when I first discovered my love for writing&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643","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\/1283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45645,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45643\/revisions\/45645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}