{"id":15,"date":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-xl.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/856702\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:18:35","slug":"the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/author_photo.jpg\" alt=\"author\" class=\"wp-image-297\" style=\"width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/author_photo.jpg 500w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/author_photo-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/author_photo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Debra Dingman\u2019s passion for writing was sparked by winning an eighth-grade essay contest about America\u2019s future\u2014which was seen through her rose-colored glasses\u2014and she hasn\u2019t stopped writing since. It\u2019s all her grandmothers\u2019 fault: Her Grandma Perry told her that she was going to be a writer like her Aunt Fern and her Ma Beasley told her to choose a career using her brain&#8211;not her back&#8211;because her back would give out but her brain would work \u2018till she died. (well, maybe\u2026!) Like her Aunt Fern Murray, this is Debra\u2019s 2nd and published book (grade school missives or full diaries of longing after boys don\u2019t count.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">She earned her BA in journalism while winning numerous writing and public speaking awards and now has covered family issues over 50 years in her writings. But, there have been no more real lessons\u2014some funny and some heartbreaking&#8211;provided than the first-hand experiences of being a mother and grandmother. Before aging makes her forget those, she shares them here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Dingman\u2019s passion for writing was sparked by winning an eighth-grade essay contest about America\u2019s future\u2014which was seen through her rose-colored glasses\u2014and she hasn\u2019t stopped writing since. It\u2019s all her grandmothers\u2019 fault: Her Grandma Perry told her that she was going to be a writer like her Aunt Fern and her Ma Beasley told her to choose a career using her brain&#8211;not&#8230;<\/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-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem3.net\/WestBowPress\/858260\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}