{"id":26,"date":"2025-11-18T02:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-11-18T02:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T02:44:21","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image border-img\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"652\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-652x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1935\" style=\"width:354px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-768x1206.jpg 768w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-978x1536.jpg 978w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author-764x1200.jpg 764w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/author.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 652px) 100vw, 652px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Brenda Ray<\/strong> was born in Bremerton, Washington, and spent her early school years between Bremerton and a one-room schoolhouse near Lake Ozette. She attended high school in Clallam Bay before graduating from Port Angeles Senior High. After living in several places\u2014including five years in Oklahoma City\u2014she eventually settled in Seattle. Her follow-up memoir, <strong><em>Hideaway II<\/em>,<\/strong> will be released soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Ray was born in Bremerton, Washington, and spent her early school years between Bremerton and a one-room schoolhouse near Lake Ozette. She attended high school in Clallam Bay before graduating from Port Angeles Senior High. After living in several places\u2014including five years in Oklahoma City\u2014she eventually settled in Seattle. Her follow-up memoir, Hideaway II, &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/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":1935,"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\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/XLUS\/865615\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}