{"id":16,"date":"2013-02-07T14:41:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T06:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/12~3wp\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2024-02-22T10:05:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:05:58","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/home\/bio","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>BIOGRAPHY<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/images\/author1.jpg\" alt=\"Lara Morgan\" align=\"left\" \/> Lara Morgan is a pen name I use to write fantasy and science fiction. I have also written under the name Lara Martin as well as my\u00a0maiden name, Lara Brncic &#8211; one which many find much more difficult to pronounce.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m a first generation Australian (my mother is Bermudian and my father Croatian) and I grew up in the towns of Mount Helena and Chidlow in the hills outside of Perth, Western Australia where the trees are tall, the summers are hot and it wasn&#8217;t unusual to find a snake in the grass down the back of the block. I was a bookworm of a kid spending a lot of nights reading with a torch when it was supposed to be lights out and wrote my first book when I was still in primary school: a blatantly plagiarized version of The Magic Faraway Tree &#8211; thank you so much Enid Blyton for your stellar imagination.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Western Australia and live in a small house on a large block with my husbannd and two children. If you want to know how I got published click on the Writing link for the full thrilling story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BIOGRAPHY Lara Morgan is a pen name I use to write fantasy and science fiction. I have also written under the name Lara Martin as well as my\u00a0maiden name, Lara Brncic &#8211; one which many find much more difficult to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/home\/bio\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/574"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lara-morgan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}