{"id":6,"date":"2016-10-23T20:04:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2018-11-16T15:53:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T15:53:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/bbrooks-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara Brooks - The Cat Bird Sang\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Barbara Brooks, a poet for over 15 years, has had her poems published in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Charlotte Poetry Review, The River&#8217;s Edge and Kerf among others.<\/p>\n<p>She has studied with Judy Goldman, Rebecca McClanahan and most currently with Cathy Smith Bowers and has been a member of several writing groups; The Poets&#8217; Workshop (Duke Continuing Education) and is working with a group in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Many of her poems are based on the observations of nature. She begins her poems on the backs of envelopes before editing on the computer. She is a physical therapist at UNC Hospitals and lives in Hillsborough, N.C.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thecatbirdsang_cover.jpg\" alt=\"the cat bird sang book by Barbara Brooks\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thecatbirdsang_cover.jpg 240w, https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/thecatbirdsang_cover-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><br \/>\n<center><a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/orders\/\">Order<\/a> your copy today!<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Brooks, a poet for over 15 years, has had her poems published in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Charlotte Poetry Review, The River&#8217;s Edge and Kerf among others. She has studied with Judy Goldman, Rebecca McClanahan and most currently with Cathy Smith Bowers and has been a member of several writing groups; The Poets&#8217; Workshop&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecatbirdsang.com\/www\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}