{"id":2,"date":"2012-01-04T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T00:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:48:34","slug":"about_me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/about_me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/profilepic.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-942\" title=\"profilepic\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/profilepic.jpg?resize=296%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"296\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/profilepic.jpg?resize=296%2C300&amp;ssl=1 296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/profilepic.jpg?resize=1011%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1011w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/profilepic.jpg?w=1126&amp;ssl=1 1126w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>My name is Julie.\u00a0 I live in Central North Carolina with my husband, my two kids, and my two dogs.\u00a0 I have a passion for creating.\u00a0 If I can end the day with a product that I can point to and say, &#8220;I did that.&#8221;\u00a0 it is a good day.<\/p>\n<p>I have a master&#8217;s degree in Marine Science and worked as a geneticist in a aquaculture pathology lab for five years before going into teaching. Now I manage products for a science education company, and I craft&#8230; compulsively, and with a short attention span, hence the name of the blog.<\/p>\n<p>My current hobbies include, but are not limited to: spinning, knitting, crocheting, tatting, netting, felting, wire weaving, 3D graphics, digital graphics, photography, cooking, baking, brewing (mead), cheese making, beading, silk painting, gardening, basketry, and dyeing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll think of a few more as soon as I post this.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you enjoy your trip around my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Julie.\u00a0 I live in Central North Carolina with my husband, my two kids, and my two dogs.\u00a0 I have a passion for creating.\u00a0 If I can end the day with a product that I can point to and say, &#8220;I did that.&#8221;\u00a0 it is a good day. I have a master&#8217;s degree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2gp05-2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2412,"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhaliastudios.com\/squirrel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}