{"id":21,"date":"2018-11-16T22:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpsites.co\/mellow\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2025-01-01T14:31:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T14:31:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>They threw me a whirlwind,<br \/>\nAnd I spat back the sea.<br \/>\nI took a battering but I&#8217;ve got thicker skin,<br \/>\nAnd the best people I know are looking out for me.<\/p>\n<p>-Frank Turner, &#8220;Get Better&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Based in Southeastern North Carolina, this blog is a space that I intend to use to as a creative outlet to work through some of the stuff that I have gone through since the death of my mother in March 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Some quick facts about me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>my favorite thing in the world is going to see live music &#8211; shout out to all the bands that have gotten me through the worst year and a half of my life. I dabble in all genres (except country) but my absolute favorite is punk rock and there is no place that i feel more at home than on the barricade in the pit at a show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Standing by the speakers I somehow feel alright&#8221; &#8211; Jesse Malin, &#8220;Meet Me at the End of the World&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Sneakerhead. Retro Jordans are my favorite but I also love old SBs and anything else that either provides nostalgia or catches my eye with a crazy colorway<\/li>\n<li>Sports Addict. Mainly basketball, but, I will watch pretty much any live sporting event on tv and Wrigley Field is my favorite place on the planet.<\/li>\n<li>Dog person. I like dogs more than (most) humans and am the person to a senior named Sherlock who has gotten me through the worst years of my life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3567 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/8D6616E3-0520-43D1-9E33-3C1468B34E2F-scaled.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They threw me a whirlwind, And I spat back the sea. I took a battering but I&#8217;ve got thicker skin, And the best people I know are looking out for me. -Frank Turner, &#8220;Get Better&#8221; Based in Southeastern North Carolina, this blog is a space that I intend to use to as a creative outlet &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"About\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/?page_id=21#more-21\" aria-label=\"Read more about About\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3518,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-21","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"no-featured-image-padding"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3569,"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/3569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cookingwithmydeadmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}