{"id":10,"date":"2013-06-19T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-19T20:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2013-06-27T04:55:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-27T04:55:36","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/artists-statement\/bio\/readyforthekiln\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90 alignleft\" alt=\"ReadyfortheKiln\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ReadyfortheKiln.jpg\" width=\"361\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ReadyfortheKiln.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ReadyfortheKiln-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ReadyfortheKiln-624x624.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 361px) 100vw, 361px\" \/><\/a>I have been creating for as long as I can remember. I started my creative career in textiles. I have always had an interest in jewelry making. I remember slicing and polishing peach pits as a teen and making earrings. My first enameled piece was actually in the 7th grade. I still have the heart pendent in speckled blue. Many Many years later I re-discovered the field again and fell in love. I love the combination of metalwork and color. Plus within the enameling umbrella there are so many techniques to learn. I thank Joan Schlaifer for giving me those first basic lessons as an adult and Linda Darty for her book that I have read and re-read so many times it is loosing the ink on the pages. Her skill as a metal smith and an emamelist is something I aspire too.<\/p>\n<p>I am a wife to one and a mother to 3. We all live with our dog and and desert tortoises in Northern Nevada just 20 minutes from Lake Tahoe, one of the most beautiful places on earth.<\/p>\n<p>Education<br \/>\nBS Textiles from Northern Michigan University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been creating for as long as I can remember. I started my creative career in textiles. I have always had an interest in jewelry making. I remember slicing and polishing peach pits as a teen and making earrings. My first enameled piece was actually in the 7th grade. I still have the heart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tekaandzoe.com\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}