{"id":41,"date":"2024-12-27T13:59:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T13:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2024-12-31T17:49:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T17:49:52","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/?page_id=41","title":{"rendered":"About Me&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-accent-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-669513ed wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1da03c2a wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-stretch is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-vertical is-content-justification-stretch is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-444d5ee8 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"min-height:100%\">\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">I am a <em>middle aged<\/em> woman living and working in Pontypridd, South Wales. Originally from West Yorkshire, Pontypridd has been home since 1989. Although my roots are still in Yorkshire, I very much feel part of the Welsh community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">I would like to acknowledge my amazing son for setting up this blog website for me and for helping me to come up with a name that captures my heart: that I am both Yorkshire and Welsh at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-heading-font-family has-x-large-font-size\" style=\"line-height:1.2\">I have always enjoyed writing. (Well, I suppose it started sometime after I had mastered writing in full sentences). Much of my writing over the years is lost forever in old notebooks or floppy disks. Going forward, I hope to use this blog to post my new thoughts and to occasionally add some of my earlier writing. Let me know what you think by adding a comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-9fe8ed88 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-container-content-0733e5d0\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bridge-mine-best.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-46\" style=\"aspect-ratio:3\/4;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bridge-mine-best.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bridge-mine-best-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bridge-mine-best-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Bridge-mine-best-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-base-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-d89aad35 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-549b0c86 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a middle aged woman living and working in Pontypridd, South Wales. Originally from West Yorkshire, Pontypridd has been home since 1989. Although my roots are still in Yorkshire, I very much feel part of the Welsh community. I would like to acknowledge my amazing son for setting up this blog website for me [&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-41","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingyorkie.wales\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}