{"id":162,"date":"2019-02-28T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2020-12-12T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T12:40:51","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/?page_id=162","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dean Rasmussen grew up in a small Minnesota town and began writing stories at the age of ten, driven by his fascination with the Star Wars hero&#8217;s journey. He continued writing short stories and attempted a few novels through his early twenties until he stopped to focus on his computer animation ambitions. He studied English at a Minnesota college during that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He learned the art of computer animation and went on to work on twenty feature films, a television show, and a AAA video game as a visual effects artist over thirteen years. He currently teaches animation for visual effects in Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspired by his favorite authors, Stephen King, Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, and H.P. Lovecraft, Dean began writing novels and short stories again in 2018 to thrill and delight a new generation of horror fans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Rasmussen grew up in a small Minnesota town and began writing stories at the age of ten, driven by his fascination with the Star Wars hero&#8217;s journey. He continued writing short stories and attempted a few novels through his early twenties until he stopped to focus on his computer animation ambitions. He studied English [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/no-sidebar-page.php","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deanauthorphoto_150.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/deanauthorphoto_150.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deanrasmussen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}