{"id":1,"name":"admin","url":"http:\/\/www.EyesLikeCarnivals.com","description":"American Oz is my first book. It combines new journalism with travel stories.\r\n\r\nI've hitchhiked much of the United States, Canada, Eastern\/Western Europe, Middle East and North Africa. I've bicycled three times across America, in Seattle I hopped a freight train and rode back to Chicago with my bike. I've been to more than 90 countries.\r\n\r\nI swam the headwaters of the Nile, survived a hippo attack, studied Buddhism in the Himalayas and in the Amazon I danced a jig with a  jug of  White Lightning. I'm the former heavyweight champion of University College Cork, Ireland and I am blessed by Grace, my high school daughter.\r\n\r\nI wrote stories for the Chicago Tribune, New York Daily News, Chicago Sun-Times, Daily Herald, Moscow Times, Budapest Sun, Budapest Business Journal, Elgin Courier-News, Naperville Star, Copley News Service and several Internet publications.\r\n\r\nI've attended The Poynter Institute, University of Maryland - College Park, Northwestern University's Medill Graduate School of Journalism, Marquette University and University of College Cork, Ireland.\r\n\r\nBefore that I had the great fortune of a Catholic education from the Jesuits, Viatorians, School Sisters of St. Francis, Bernadine Sisters of St. Francis and Mother Elizabeth Seton's Sisters of Charity.","link":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/?author=1","slug":"admin","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8c333fb6540a05d2d7f83d9bfea57f?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8c333fb6540a05d2d7f83d9bfea57f?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be8c333fb6540a05d2d7f83d9bfea57f?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyeslikecarnivals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}