{"id":64,"date":"2019-08-05T12:44:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T12:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/?page_id=64"},"modified":"2022-12-02T17:51:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T17:51:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I love to write stories that come at a genre sideways in a dark alley when it&#8217;s not looking, and pounce. Usually these are science fiction, because my soul stretches further into the future than into the past \u2013 but I&#8217;ve been known to stray from the path into the troll-infested forest of fantasy, the litter-strewn pavements of the dystopian, and now and then, the starkly familiar mundanity of the contemporary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe that optimism is a worthy service to provide to a reader, and I try to envisage hopeful projections of our future in the universe. There&#8217;s a yang to this yin, though: some of my tales turn out quite dark and twisted, and after all, who am I to stand in the way of the demons when they&#8217;ve been cooped up too long and are demanding an outing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-markdown\"><p>I&#8217;ve never been comfortable choosing one great passion on which to focus when I clearly have two: writing and music. You&#8217;ll find that this blog bounces from one to the other somewhat, but I&#8217;ll be sure to use the categories to label the entries, so if your interest lies in a singular direction, clickety click on those!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-social-links is-style-pill-shape is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links-is-layout-flex\"><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI love to write stories that come at a genre sideways in a dark alley when it&#8217;s not looking, and&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;About Me&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-64","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miketorr.com\/writer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}