{"id":26,"date":"2025-08-11T08:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T08:59:39","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"844\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1286\" style=\"width:524px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/author.jpg 844w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/author-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/author-768x713.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 844px) 100vw, 844px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tami Loehrs<\/strong> was a worldwide digital forensics expert until her husband Dave lost his battle with brain cancer. This devastating loss led her on a soul-searching mission to find new purpose and hope carrying the new ill-fated title of widow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During her travels through Africa, she documented the experience using the Notes app on her phone. Sporting a new camera and a passion for nature, she beautifully captured her uncanny connection with the animals. The culmination evolved into her first published book, <em>Africa\u2026 Table for One<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her extraordinary encounters with wildlife, especially the gorillas, touched her spiritually and, quite literally, physically. This led to her new motivation to preserve and protect wildlife, and give back to communities in need. So she packed up her life in the US, moved to Rwanda and started the Silverbacks franchise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She now lives in Musanze with her four dogs, including the Mastiff named for the little baby elephant that fell in love with her, Bondeni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:316px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tami Loehrs was a worldwide digital forensics expert until her husband Dave lost his battle with brain cancer. This devastating loss led her on a soul-searching mission to find new purpose and hope carrying the new ill-fated title of widow. During her travels through Africa, she documented the experience using the Notes app on her &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1168,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/867689\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}