{"id":26,"date":"2025-11-20T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-27T08:14:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T08:14:37","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg 450w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mara R. Gobernatz<\/strong> is an educator, mother of four, and follower of Christ from Naperville, Illinois. With over twenty years of experience in public, private, and therapeutic schools, she has been called to encourage others to live out their faith through compassion, service, and integrity. Her writing reflects a heart for students, teachers, and families and a desire to bring Christlike influence into everyday school life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mara R. Gobernatz is an educator, mother of four, and follower of Christ from Naperville, Illinois. With over twenty years of experience in public, private, and therapeutic schools, she has been called to encourage others to live out their faith through compassion, service, and integrity. Her writing reflects a heart for students, teachers, and families &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/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":1993,"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\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/WestBowPress\/850420\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}