{"id":5,"date":"2021-04-22T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-02-25T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T10:44:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, I&#8217;m Lauren Mouat. I&#8217;m a writer, instructor, and licensed tour guide based in Tuscany. I grew up in Menlo Park, California and moved to Rome in 2010 for what was meant to be a year but turned into nearly a decade before my move to Livorno.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/?page_id=129\">My short story collection, Intermezzo, is out now! Click for more details and how to buy.<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:51px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A little about me beyond the tabs above: I am the author of the short story collection <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/?page_id=129\">Intermezzo<\/a> and the founder and editor in chief of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendoorsreview.com\">Open Doors Review Literary Magazine<\/a>. I am a founding member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.florenceliterarysociety.com\">Florence Literary Society<\/a> and a professor of Travel Writing for study abroad students in Florence. I am an officially licensed Italian tour guide and the co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unlockitaly.com\">Unlock Italy<\/a>: A guided tour and travel planning business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can find me on instagram @laurenissima_unlock_italy or by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/?page_id=27\">email<\/a>. I&#8217;d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium is-style-rounded is-style-rounded--1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"261\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-261x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-261x300.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-891x1024.jpg 891w, https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-768x883.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-1337x1536.jpg 1337w, https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy-1140x1310.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IMG_5541-copy.jpg 1522w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, I&#8217;m Lauren Mouat. I&#8217;m a writer, instructor, and licensed tour guide based in Tuscany. I grew up in Menlo Park, California and moved to Rome in 2010 for what was meant to be a year but turned into nearly a decade before my move to Livorno. My short story collection, Intermezzo, is out now! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":182,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenmouat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}