{"id":1386,"date":"2017-10-19T20:35:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T00:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?page_id=1386"},"modified":"2023-07-14T22:32:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T02:32:24","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2729\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1.jpeg 512w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-70x70.jpeg 70w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-270x270.jpeg 270w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-192x192.jpeg 192w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-180x180.jpeg 180w, http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/cropped-me-cartoonized-3-1-32x32.jpeg 32w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Shana Figueroa is a traditionally and self-published author and filmmaker. Though she&#8217;s been writing as a second career since 2010, she&#8217;s only recently begun seriously making films after dabbling in the medium as a hobby for many years. After retiring from the US Air  Force as a lieutenant colonel in 2021, she began graduate film school at Emerson College in Boston.<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">She currently lives in Massachusetts with her husband, two young daughters, and a perky pug. Besides writing and filmmaking, she also practices martial arts as a 4th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, plays the guitar and violin (&#8230;both badly, but getting better!), and reads lots of science magazines. Her dream is to write, direct, and produce films while her husband pays the bills.<\/mark><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shana Figueroa is a traditionally and self-published author and filmmaker. Though she&#8217;s been writing as a second career since 2010, she&#8217;s only recently begun seriously making films after dabbling in the medium as a hobby for many years. After retiring from the US Air Force as a lieutenant colonel in 2021, she began graduate film &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":true,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-1386","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9Vyi8-mm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1386\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}