{"id":2,"date":"2010-12-30T18:22:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T16:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2018-04-03T22:33:43","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T20:33:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Laura and I&#8217;m an animator, photographer and general visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa, previously working as a digital designer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearepunk.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Punk at King James<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I love all things art and music-related, mythology, nature, cats, dreaming about snow &#8211; all that kinda stuff&#8230; I can&#8217;t imagine life without music and love it in all shapes and forms (except maybe musicals), so you&#8217;ll find photos from Cape Town gigs and festivals that I&#8217;ve been to up on this site (along with the occasional photos of my art, cats and flowers and girly stuff like that) and sometimes in print too;\u00a0I was a regular photographic contributor to monthly Capetonian music magazine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourlmg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Your LMG<\/em><\/a> (2011-2013) and my work has also been featured in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/photo-in-rolling-stone-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rolling Stone South Africa<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/one-small-seed-selected-creatives-6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>One Small Seed<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/images\/Laura-McCullagh-all-about-cats-feature-article_March-2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>All About Cats Magazine<\/em><\/a>. Currently I freelance and cover music for top SA music blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.texxandthecity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texx and the City<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it I guess, hope you enjoy your time here, feel free to say hi\/share your thoughts\/tell me I was unfair about your band* or anything like that.<\/p>\n<div style=\"height: 280px; width: 406px; background-image: url('\/images\/profile_wide.jpg'); background-repeat: no-repeat;\"><\/div>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n= = = = = = = = = =<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Just a quick disclaimer<\/em>: I have a lot of respect for musicians, and any other artists who throw their souls at the mercy of the world but some of them just aren&#8217;t to my taste. Any opinions expressed here are my own and are just that &#8211; opinions. If I wasn&#8217;t overly impressed by a band or a video or whatever, that&#8217;s just how I felt &#8211; get out there, experience and decide for yourself. <a title=\"last.fm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/marmaluke\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">You can also check out the music I listen to<\/a>, and, depending on how compatible our taste is, feel free to embrace or dismiss my musical opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, my name is Laura and I&#8217;m an animator, photographer and general visual artist based in Cape Town, South Africa, previously working as a digital designer at Punk at King James. I love all things art and music-related, mythology, nature, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21028,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":54,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27237,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/27237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lauramccullagh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}