{"id":118,"date":"2016-08-25T22:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T05:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurie-elaine.com\/scribble\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2022-04-26T13:00:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T20:00:49","slug":"about-laurie","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/about-laurie\/","title":{"rendered":"About Laurie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-16-101714-01-04.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-16-101714-01-04.jpeg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screenshot-2020-09-16-101714-01-04.jpeg?w=532&amp;ssl=1 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Laurie Geenen<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>is a long-time dabbler in fiction who is fascinated by all the ways the world can end. This can be traced back to receiving National Geographic as a child; specifically after reading the article\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/natgeo.jpg\"><em>Chernobyl &#8211; One Year After<\/em> in the May 1987 volume<\/a>. Along with nuclear holocausts and winter other fascinating endings are pandemics, zombie apocalypse, a slow the end of oil, resource scarcity, global recession, and climate change.<\/p>\n<p>Her writing career started early; her preferred media were paper bags and her bedroom wall where she scrawlled her favourite word repeatedly: <em><strong>f<\/strong><strong>l\u00fc <\/strong><\/em>(complete with superfluous umlat).<\/p>\n<p>She is a lifelong resident of Greater Vancouver, BC where she lives with her husband, dog, and motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p>Laurie was a student of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpu.ca\">Kwantlen Polytechnic University&#8217;s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpu.ca\/arts\/creative-writing\/writing-links\">Creative Writing program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laurie Geenen\u00a0is a long-time dabbler in fiction who is fascinated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geenen.ca\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}