{"id":7,"count":0,"description":"Although I never intended to be a writer, after reading Blue Like Jazz, I decided to give it a go.   In 2006 I submitted an excerpt of my writing to Donald Miller, that his buddy Jordan discovered and insisted to Don, you need to write this girl.  And so Don wrote a kind e-mail to me stating, \"First of all, be affirmed, you are a writer... \"  I then knew, someday I would be.\r\n\r\nOriginally from Michigan, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, I spent several years working in camping (Spring Hill) and youth ministry (Young Life). In 2005 I packed up and headed out west to serve as a Resident Director at \"Holy Palm Tree University\" and to work on my Masters at Fuller Seminary. In 2010, I switched coasts, moving to NYC to work at The King's College for a couple of years. \r\n\r\nThen, in spring of 2012 I took students to Uganda, and that begins my next memoir. ","link":"http:\/\/katrinablank.com\/?cat=7","name":"My Story","slug":"my-story","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinablank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinablank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinablank.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"http:\/\/katrinablank.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts&categories=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}