{"id":15,"date":"2014-01-02T04:44:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T04:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2022-01-14T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T21:34:32","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1072 size-medium alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Photo-on-3-16-18-at-3.06-PM-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Photo-on-3-16-18-at-3.06-PM-2-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Photo-on-3-16-18-at-3.06-PM-2-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Photo-on-3-16-18-at-3.06-PM-2-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Photo-on-3-16-18-at-3.06-PM-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My name is Amy Elizabeth Robinson, and for a long time I lived in the eastern mountains of Sonoma County, California, until my family&#8217;s home and community were lost to wildfire. I often woke to the sound of towhees piping, wind blowing through the firs, or my children asking to snuggle in bed. Now I wake to morning traffic, white-crowned sparrows, and children who are strangely close to being small adults.<\/p>\n<p>I am a poet, writer, reader, historian, and many other things. I study Zen and the creative process with Rachel Boughton, Roshi at <a href=\"https:\/\/flowermountainzen.org\">Flower Mountain Zen<\/a>, which helps me keep my mind open and my feet on the ground, and to enjoy the ride when they are not.<\/p>\n<p>I was a founding editor of the Pacific Zen Institute&#8217;s online magazine of Zen and the arts, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uncertainty.club\/\">Uncertainty Club<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em>Now I just write.<\/p>\n<p>I have several degrees in history, from Princeton and London and Stanford. Then I took a left turn of sorts and ended up with a big, roomy, creative life. Here I am.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you so much for your companionship in this gorgeous, troubled world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Amy Elizabeth Robinson, and for a long time I lived in the eastern mountains of Sonoma County, California, until my family&#8217;s home and community were lost to wildfire. I often woke to the sound of towhees piping, wind blowing through the firs, or my children asking to snuggle in bed. Now I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4goq1-f","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.turningplanet.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}