{"id":3138,"date":"2013-12-02T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T04:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/?page_id=3138"},"modified":"2014-12-26T03:24:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T03:24:39","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/?page_id=3138","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_4000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2054 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_4000-e1385953407362-1024x835.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_4000\" width=\"212\" height=\"174\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: #888888;\">A native New Yorker, I earned my undergraduate degree in English and spent the past several\u00a0years writing for the media\/entertainment industry (most recently\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/?page_id=1661\" target=\"_blank\">MTV.com<\/a>) and pursuing a Masters degree in Art Education at\u00a0NYU. Now a state-certified art educator, I&#8217;m currently a full-time visual arts teacher at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronschool.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron School<\/a>, a private special needs school serving students of all abilities in grades K-7. Before that, I taught fine\/digital arts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps33chelseaprep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">PS 33, Chelsea Prep<\/a>, worked as teaching artist in upper-Manhattan for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caw4kids.org\/index\/Home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Art Works<\/a>, and traveled to Kosovo\u00a0with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">ArtsAction Group<\/a>, an emerging non-profit dedicated to\u00a0bringing\u00a0free visual\/theater arts programs to high-conflict areas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; color: #888888;\">I appreciate your interest in my work, and invite you to explore this site and learn more about my professional background and creative experience. Thanks for stopping by, and as always, please feel free to <a href=\"mailto:deborah.newman@gmail.com\">reach out<\/a>\u00a0with any questions.<\/span><div class='divider-border' style='margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 30px'><\/div><div class='clear'><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A native New Yorker, I earned my undergraduate degree in English and spent the past several\u00a0years writing for the media\/entertainment industry (most recently\u00a0MTV.com) and pursuing a Masters degree in Art Education at\u00a0NYU. Now a state-certified art educator, I&#8217;m currently a full-time visual arts teacher at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3138"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3319,"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3138\/revisions\/3319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.deborahznewman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}