{"id":284,"date":"2026-05-29T21:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=284"},"modified":"2026-05-29T21:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T21:10:40","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>I am a writer, professor, and unlikely fig farmer, tied three seasons of the year to a semi-urban mini-farm in the northern-half of the American South, with my son, half a dozen chickens, and a truly terrifying number of rats and copperheads. My book,<\/em> Cat Woman in Dog Country, <em>is forthcoming with University of Alabama Press in March 2027.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7500079181579198;width:515px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-850x1133.jpg 850w, https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_7752-1-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a writer, professor, and unlikely fig farmer, tied three seasons of the year to a semi-urban mini-farm in the northern-half of the American South, with my son, half a dozen chickens, and a truly terrifying number of rats and copperheads. My book, Cat Woman in Dog Country, is forthcoming with University of Alabama&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenafeder.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}