{"id":361,"date":"2010-01-23T09:47:44","date_gmt":"2010-01-23T15:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/randy_simpson\/?page_id=361"},"modified":"2020-12-22T13:32:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:32:58","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-399   alignleft\" title=\"LeAnn Ralph\" src=\"http:\/\/ruralroute2.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leannsmall.jpg\" alt=\"LeAnn Ralph\" width=\"87\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LeAnn R. Ralph earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English with a writing emphasis from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a Master of Arts in Teaching from UW-Whitewater.<\/p>\n<p>She spent several years teaching English at a boys&#8217; boarding school and also has worked as a freelance writer and as a newspaper reporter. She served as the editor of the Wisconsin Regional Writers&#8217; Assoc. quarterly publication, <em>The Wisconsin Regional Writer<\/em> from 2000 to 2004.<\/p>\n<p>She lives in west central Wisconsin with her husband, Randy Simpson, in the house that her parents built when they retired from farming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeAnn R. Ralph earned a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English with a writing emphasis from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a Master of Arts in Teaching from UW-Whitewater. She spent several years teaching English at a boys&#8217; boarding school and also has worked as a freelance writer and as a newspaper reporter. She served as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-361","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1971,"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/361\/revisions\/1971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ruralroute2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}