{"id":321,"date":"2009-11-24T13:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scifiville.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-04-29T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T21:29:44","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?page_id=321","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 47, from Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, which isn&#8217;t in England, and work as a radio journalist.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in many crafts including knitting, sewing and beading. I&#8217;m also the host of the podcast\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitcast.com\">KnitCast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I share my house with my husband Eric and cat Charlie, my self-built PCs running Ubuntu, two apple macs, many Raspberry Pis, plenty of sci-fi dvds, comic books and yarn! I&#8217;ve been blogging about all of this since 2002.<\/p>\n<p>You can also find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/scifiville\/\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mirshad\">Twitter<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.litsy.com\/Mirshad\">Litsy<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/user\/show\/5943233-marie-irshad\">GoodReads<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Book Reviews: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m always happy to receive review copies and ARCs of books whether physical or electronically. I mainly read science fiction and prefer to read diverse books where possible. I also read graphic novels, fantasy, horror, short stories, literary fiction, some romance and some non-fiction. If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to get in touch with me regarding book reviews then please use the email form on the Contact Me page.<\/p>\n<p><em>NB: Accepting a book from you does not guarantee a favourable review or even a review at all.\u00c2\u00a0 But I do look at all review copies.\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m 47, from Cardiff, the capital city of Wales, which isn&#8217;t in England, and work as a radio journalist. I&#8217;m interested in many crafts including knitting, sewing and beading. I&#8217;m <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?page_id=321\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-321","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}