{"id":42,"date":"2013-02-18T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2025-07-07T11:52:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T11:52:42","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hanlon is the author of a <a title=\"Novels\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/novels\/\">number of fictional novels<\/a> (in that they don&#8217;t exist), <a title=\"Butterfly, a novel\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wombatsdigit.com\/b\/\">one <em>actual<\/em> novel<\/a>, <a title=\"Short Fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/short-fiction\/\">a whole bunch of short stories, <\/a>and <a title=\"Verano the Fish\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/childrens-fiction\/\">a couple children&#8217;s books<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He left his heart in Massachusetts, his home and native land, which makes things very difficult for his wife and two children, whom, by all accounts, he holds dear in that same heart. State Police are dredging local ponds and lakes as you read this. Medical professionals and venture capitalists would also like to speak to him with regards to his remote, possibly Internet-enabled heart.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Novels\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/novels\/\">Matthew Hanlon&#8217;s Novels <\/a> \u00a0&#8211; \u00a0<strong><a title=\"Short Fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/short-fiction\/\">Matthew Hanlon&#8217;s Short Stories<\/a> &#8211; \u00a0<strong><a title=\"Children's Fiction\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/childrens-fiction\/\">Matthew Hanlon&#8217;s Children&#8217;s Stories<\/a><strong>\u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0<a title=\"Out and About\" href=\"http:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/about-the-author\/out-and-about\/\">Matthew Hanlon Out and About<\/a>*<\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>* (digitally only, as we said, he doesn&#8217;t get out much)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Hanlon is the author of a number of fictional novels (in that they don&#8217;t exist), one actual novel, a whole bunch of short stories, and a couple children&#8217;s books. He left his heart in Massachusetts, his home and native land, which makes things very difficult for his wife and two children, whom, by all [&hellip;]<\/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-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wombatsdigit.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}