{"id":26,"date":"2025-10-15T07:39:31","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-10-15T07:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:45:48","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/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=\"420\" height=\"650\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1758\" style=\"width:310px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/author.jpg 420w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/author-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mary Lou Krause<\/strong> is a retired high school English teacher. She lives in a small community in upstate NY with her husband, her high school sweetheart, who she married in 1976. They are blessed to have their children and grandchildren living nearby. One of the great joys of her life is traveling with her husband in their RV, seeing new places, walking and being in nature. She loves colors and uses her unique ability to combine colors when she sews, quilts and creates art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:287px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou Krause is a retired high school English teacher. She lives in a small community in upstate NY with her husband, her high school sweetheart, who she married in 1976. They are blessed to have their children and grandchildren living nearby. One of the great joys of her life is traveling with her husband &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/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":1758,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-left-sidebar.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\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/826780\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}