{"id":43,"date":"2023-08-13T22:10:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T22:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2024-04-24T20:48:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T20:48:35","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/?page_id=43","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am the product of mid-Saskatchewan lakes and grainfields, raised by broad rolling southwestern grasslands. I am not a city person. I have a B.S.A. and a B.Ed. with minors in theology, landscape architecture, and a major in wonder. I taught Arts Ed, ELA and Creative Writing, among the many subjects that land on your plate as a rural teacher (apologies to my Physics classes &#8211; I did my best). I enjoy birding, rock-hounding, hunting and fishing, and my closet has Raptors, Blue Jays, Riders and Vikings gear. I run in the summer and snowshoe in the winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"769\" src=\"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-1024x769.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-1024x769.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-768x577.jpg 768w, https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-1536x1154.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/IMG_6438-2048x1539.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While I enjoy photography and pencil work, writing has always been the creative outlet that &#8211; however frustrating and challenging at times &#8211; puts me at peace with myself. I play with poetry and have published several short stories. Currently I am working on a humorous novel, <em>Welcome to Sloughbottom<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the product of mid-Saskatchewan lakes and grainfields, raised by broad rolling southwestern grasslands. I am not a city person. I have a B.S.A. and a B.Ed. with minors in theology, landscape architecture, and a major in wonder. I taught Arts Ed, ELA and Creative Writing, among the many subjects that land on your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coteauviews.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}