{"id":8997,"date":"2023-09-16T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2023-09-16T21:38:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T21:38:31","slug":"before-i-wrote-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/before-i-wrote-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Before I wrote books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I dreamed of writing books ever since I was a little kid, but the first “book” that was published wasn’t a book at all. On behalf of the University Women’s Club of Brantford, I helped create a directory of women and work in Brant county. Sounds hokey, now, I know, but in 1989 this sort of booklet was needed to show girls that they could dream as wide as boys. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I dreamed of writing books ever since I was a little kid, but the first “book” that was published wasn’t a book at all. On behalf of the University Women’s Club of Brantford, I helped create a directory of women and work in Brant county. Sounds hokey, now, I know, but in 1989 this sort … Continue reading “Before I wrote books”<\/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":[727],"class_list":["post-8997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-stories","tag-mentorship-directory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997","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=8997"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9012,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8997\/revisions\/9012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}