{"id":2,"name":"Kathleen Brosius","url":"http:\/\/www.tininthewind.com","description":"About Kathleen\r\n           Kathleen grew up in the small northeast Iowa\r\ntown of New Albin, located along the sloughs of the\r\nMississippi River. Living in New Albin, she and her\r\nbrothers played in the streets, roamed the hills, and\r\nexplored the river bottoms behind town. Their\r\nmother was a school teacher, having taught in\r\nseveral one room schools that dotted the country\r\nside of Allamakee County. Kathleen, with her\r\nbrothers, had the privilege of attending one of these\r\nschools for two years, during the 1950s.\r\n        Their dad was a commercial fisherman and\r\nowned a plot of land along the Minnesota Slough,\r\njust north of New Albin. The family spent most of\r\nthe summer months enjoying the wilderness of the\r\nriver bottoms. There was no electricity, or\r\nplumbing. The only entertainment  were the sights\r\nand sounds of Mother Nature, books,  and their\r\nimagination. While nestled in a fluffy feather tic\r\nmattress, the children listened to their mother read,\r\nby lamplight, from popular children\u2019s books of the\r\ntime. They loved listening to the many stories that\r\ntheir dad loved to tell. All of this led to Kathleen\u2019s\r\nvivid imagination and her love of writing stories.  \r\nThrough the years, she has published many short\r\nstories and poems.  \r\n       Kathleen met her husband, George, while in\r\nhigh school. They were married in 1965 and moved\r\nto Minneapolis. After a few years they found\r\nthemselves missing the Mississippi River and moved\r\nto Stoddard, WI, where they raised their two sons,\r\nScott and Billy. They enjoyed the river until their\r\nretirement. They then moved into a motor home,\r\nwhere they traveled the highways and byways of\r\nAmerica. Washington State, where their children\r\nlive, became their summer home, visiting various\r\nRV parks throughout the Pacific Northwest.\r\n       Kathleen and George now live in Zapata, TX\r\nalong Falcon Lake on the Rio Grande River. George\r\nis an avid fisherman. Kathleen often accompanies\r\nhim on his fishing ventures, where she reads,\r\nphotographs the fish that her husband catches, plus\r\nwildlife and the wilderness surrounding the lake.\r\nShe enjoys staying at home, as well, where she\r\nwrites short stories and has recently finished an\r\nhistoric novel.","link":"https:\/\/tininthewind.com\/blogpage\/index.php\/author\/riverjones\/","slug":"riverjones","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c209e1178644b47d8954f3133e6fc8a60ebd1b26db69b744ec1ae757482301fc?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c209e1178644b47d8954f3133e6fc8a60ebd1b26db69b744ec1ae757482301fc?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c209e1178644b47d8954f3133e6fc8a60ebd1b26db69b744ec1ae757482301fc?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tininthewind.com\/blogpage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tininthewind.com\/blogpage\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}