{"id":13,"date":"2012-10-12T21:56:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islenzka.net\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2015-01-01T22:03:33","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T22:03:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-37\" title=\"Mark\" src=\"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mark.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I decided to start this blog as way to document my ongoing study of Icelandic, and to find others who share that interest. I had made several starts at learning the language over the years, but didn&#8217;t really get into it until after my first visit to Iceland at the end of 2011. Let&#8217;s just say I came back inspired \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had an interest in language and linguistics most of my life, having studied Spanish, Russian and Polish in college, along with study abroad in Ecuador, Russia and Poland. Even though my career led me in a different direction, I&#8217;ve tried to keep up with the languages I&#8217;ve studied, and now have added Icelandic to the list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided to start this blog as way to document my ongoing study of Icelandic, and to find others who&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5053,"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/5053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/islenzka.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}