{"id":10847,"date":"2026-04-12T23:10:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=10847"},"modified":"2026-04-12T23:10:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T23:10:48","slug":"thirty-years-of-author-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/thirty-years-of-author-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirty years of author photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that my first book, Silver Threads, came out 30 years ago! Writers are by nature introverts, and one of the hardest things about being a writer is having to endure the “author photo” experience. My first few author photos were professionally taken, but after awhile, I just asked my husband to do it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that my first book, Silver Threads, came out 30 years ago! Writers are by nature introverts, and one of the hardest things about being a writer is having to endure the “author photo” experience. My first few author photos were professionally taken, but after awhile, I … Continue reading “Thirty years of author photos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[878],"class_list":["post-10847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-author-photo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10848,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}