{"id":347,"date":"2021-01-06T15:08:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/?page_id=347"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:28:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:28:55","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well&#8230; My lovely son TJ has set this blog up for me.\u00a0 I read a friends blog last night and thought to myself&#8230;&#8221;I could do that&#8230; and TJ said &#8220;I can set that up for you. I am Carol&#8230;Carol Wake&#8230;I am 71 but in my head, I feel a lot younger. I have always loved words and stationery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I write in an actual proper paper journal since 1988 and have just started no 64. I have a lovely husband of 47 years and 3 sons, a lovely daughter in law and an adorable grandson. I am originally from the North East but have lived &#8220;down south&#8221; since 1973. When the kids started to arrive was living on a farm in deepest Surrey&#8230; hubby worked on a pig farm and it was quite isolating. I advertised for pen pals in a Mother\/Baby magazine and also answered other peoples adverts and built up a number of pen-pals, some of whom I still write to and one in particular who has become a very dear friend.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I got involved in correspondence magazines. At one point I had 70 plus pen pals. These pen pals made me feel connected. Writing paper, notelets, stickers, postcards etc I got very addicted to&#8230;then as time went on my son introduced me to Facebook and it felt it was like a continuation of my pen pal hobby, and now this is my new venture. A few years ago I decided to colour my hair pink&#8230;.at the moment the heatwave these past few weeks has drawn all the pink out and its the dreaded grey at the moment but will soon be pink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; My lovely son TJ has set this blog up for me.\u00a0 I read a friends blog last night and thought to myself&#8230;&#8221;I could do that&#8230; and TJ said &#8220;I can set that up for you. I am Carol&#8230;Carol Wake&#8230;I am 71 but in my head, I feel a lot younger. I have always loved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-347","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/347\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolwake.me.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}