{"id":2,"date":"2008-10-30T12:40:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T19:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-05-02T21:06:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-03T02:06:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/about\/self\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2433\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2433\" alt=\"self\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/self.jpg?resize=200%2C200&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/self.jpg?w=200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/self.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, in Flint, Michigan, there was a girl born toward the end of President Carter&#8217;s administration. Many girls fit this description, but the one we are talking about here is named Sherlonya. Sherlonya can be lazy about capitalizing her name, figuring a name as unique as hers defies standard conventions of punctuation. She likes to write, but is not hypergraphic. She remembers writing &nbsp;her first stories for extra credit in a fourth grade class, inspired by prompts. She vaguely recalls writing something called &#8220;The Purple Hippo With Rollerskates.&#8221; This may not be the actual title or topic, but it adequately reflects the surrealism.<\/p>\n<p>These days Sherlonya is writing poetry and fiction and has won a contest and a contest there. She cooks a lot, sews a little and is trying to savor her son&#8217;s childhood.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She is prone to eavesdropping. But she recycles! Putting all those extra words into new stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time, in Flint, Michigan, there was a girl born toward the end of President Carter&#8217;s administration. Many girls fit this description, but the one we are talking about here is named Sherlonya. Sherlonya can be lazy about capitalizing her name, figuring a name as unique as hers defies standard conventions of punctuation.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P33KTw-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/birthday-goals-9-9-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Birthday Goals 2011","author":"admin","date":"December 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a list of 32 things that I would like to achieve by my 32nd birthday: 1. 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