{"id":2327,"date":"2021-12-30T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-30T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nickispenblog.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2327"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:02:13","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns alignwide is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3250\" style=\"width:139px;height:139px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me.jpg 640w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/nickispen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/me-60x60.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Nicki. This is the story of how I left home for a little jaunt around the world in September 2014, and haven&#8217;t stopped since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just over one week before my 26th birthday I packed my bag, said goodbye to my family and friends and boarded a plane to Hanoi, Vietnam. My original plan was for five months of travel in South East Asia, one month in Australia and a one-year working holiday visa in New Zealand. After that, things were a little undecided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, more than 10 years on, I have visited home but haven&#8217;t returned to what would be considered a full-time &#8216;normal&#8217; English life since my departure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Nicki. This is the story of how I left home for a little jaunt around the world in September 2014, and haven&#8217;t stopped since. Just over one week before my 26th birthday I packed my bag, said goodbye to my family and friends and boarded a plane to Hanoi, Vietnam. My original plan &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2327","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3918,"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2327\/revisions\/3918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickispen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}