{"id":51144,"date":"2019-08-17T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T10:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.30.214.42\/blog\/?p=51144"},"modified":"2019-08-21T00:53:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T14:53:40","slug":"josie-a-okuly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/josie-a-okuly\/","title":{"rendered":"Josie A. Okuly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a small child, I&#8217;ve had my nose stuck in a book. Nothing in my childhood world compared to a visit to the library, since I yearned to spend every waking moment exploring the treasured books that lined the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>I started writing stories and poems when I received my first diary at the age of nine. Through the years I&#8217;ve filled many diaries with my scribbles, drawings and observations.<\/p>\n<p>In college I studied history and archaeology as I pursued my dream of becoming an explorer of lost civilizations. I didn&#8217;t become the next Indiana Jones, but I never lost my love of writing.<\/p>\n<p>My work has appeared in the Adirondack Review, Anotherealm, Millennium Shift, Nuvein Magazine, The Harrow, E Street Journal, Cold Glass Magazine, Long Story Short, and Tapestry.<\/p>\n<p>I share my busy life with my husband, son, and a feisty feline named Frodo.<\/p>\n<h1>Author of:<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"YBmjFmCYGa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/an-elephant-named-fiesta\/\">An Elephant Named Fiesta by Josie A. Okuly<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;An Elephant Named Fiesta by Josie A. Okuly&#8221; &#8212; Writers Exchange E-Publishing\" src=\"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/an-elephant-named-fiesta\/embed\/#?secret=7qL5YBri4Y#?secret=YBmjFmCYGa\" data-secret=\"YBmjFmCYGa\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever since I was a small child, I&#8217;ve had my nose stuck in a book. Nothing in my childhood world compared to a visit to the library, since I yearned to spend every waking moment exploring the treasured books that lined the shelves. I started writing stories and poems when I received my first diary at the age of nine. Through the years I&#8217;ve filled many diaries with my scribbles, drawings and observations. In college I studied history and archaeology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Josie A. Okuly","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[485],"tags":[87,540,417],"class_list":["post-51144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","tag-author","tag-josieaokuly","tag-writersexchangeepublishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writers-exchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/josie-a-okuly.png?fit=111%2C20&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tQiy-diU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51871,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51144\/revisions\/51871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/50901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}