{"id":9,"date":"2018-07-24T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T11:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catizone.uk\/roberta\/wordpress\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2021-08-14T17:22:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T16:22:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/catizone.uk\/roberta\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the beginning\u00a0 my passion was music.\u00a0 Listening to music\u00a0 gave me a sense of joy like none other.\u00a0 And when I discovered singing in a choir in Oxford\u00a0 in my 50s, I was in heaven.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m interested in cartooning in troubled times.\u00a0 \u00a0My background is in Fine Arts (printmaking and painting) and Computer science, specifically computers and language.\u00a0 I grew up happily in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania\u00a0 living a sheltered life in the suburbs which presented almost no threatening situations or social challenges. 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