{"id":14,"date":"2021-03-22T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2023-05-05T11:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T11:48:26","slug":"a-homepage-section","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/a-homepage-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>five sentences about Mitch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/silverCity-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/silverCity-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/silverCity-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/silverCity-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/silverCity.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>photo by Nick Rayes<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch Rayes wouldn\u2019t be here if his Irish mother didn\u2019t leave the convent to marry a Lebanese chemist.&nbsp; He was born breech in Detroit, attended Wayne State University as a merit scholar, and Naropa Institute before the school was accredited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mitch spent many years in Mexico as a professional guide and outfitter specializing in remote areas of Chiapas.&nbsp; His mountain home near San Crist\u00f3bal was ultimately seized by armed indigenous rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Poet, translator, musician, arts organizer, contractor, and father of two, Mitch produced four Albuquerque Poetry Festivals, published THE TONGUE newsletter for eight years, and received a Gratitude Award in 2013 from New Mexico Literary Arts for his warehouse performance space THE PROJECTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>five sentences about Mitch Mitch Rayes wouldn\u2019t be here if his Irish mother didn\u2019t leave the convent to marry a Lebanese chemist.&nbsp; He was born breech in Detroit, attended Wayne State University as a merit scholar, and Naropa Institute before the school was accredited. Mitch spent many years in Mexico as a professional guide and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/a-homepage-section\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bio&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchrayes.com\/index\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}