{"id":1838,"date":"2023-09-11T20:48:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/?post_type=tribe_organizer&#038;p=1838"},"modified":"2023-09-11T20:48:57","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T20:48:57","slug":"joshua-james-amberson","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/joshua-james-amberson\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua James Amberson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joshua James Amberson<\/strong> is a Portland, Oregon-based writer and creative writing instructor. He&#8217;s the author of\u00a0<em>Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes<\/em>\u00a0(Perfect Day Publishing),\u00a0<em>How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel<\/em>\u00a0(Korza Books), a series of chapbooks on Two Plum Press, as well as the long-running\u00a0<em>Basic Paper Airplane<\/em>\u00a0zine series.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1840\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-768x1366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-1140x2027.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-920x1636.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-575x1022.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-380x676.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-800x1422.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/cover_Amberson-STARING-CONTEST-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua James Amberson is a Portland, Oregon-based writer and creative writing instructor. He&#8217;s the author of\u00a0Staring Contest: Essays About Eyes\u00a0(Perfect Day Publishing),\u00a0How to Forget Almost Everything: A Novel\u00a0(Korza Books), a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1839,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1838\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}