{"id":16,"date":"2019-06-25T08:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T08:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fox.withemes.com\/times\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2019-12-22T01:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T01:45:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/contact\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"16\" class=\"elementor elementor-16\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5566bd9 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5566bd9\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-3fc7768\" data-id=\"3fc7768\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d3ad737 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d3ad737\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Beautiful Banality is a factual account of one international couple&#8217;s banal and ordinary life in one of the toughest cities in the world, New York City.\u00a0<\/p><p>In 2017, Fernanda and Michael met in the library at Parsons on the corner of 14th Street and 5th Avenue. Michael was getting his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School; he always dreamed of being a published writer. Fernanda was finishing her first semester at Parsons Fashion and Design; she always dreamed of being a creative director at a luxury fashion brand.\u00a0<\/p><p>The day their lives intersected things got far more complicated for both of them, in good and bad ways.\u00a0<\/p><p>Good. They fell in love.<\/p><p>Bad. They had to make their lives work in harmony, both parties full of their own separate ambitions, from which their struggles and passions naturally arose great friction between them.\u00a0<\/p><p>But this is every couple&#8217;s struggle &#8211; the finding of a balance in the never-ending pursuit of success in a career of one&#8217;s choosing &#8211; all the while trying, desperately, hand-in-hand, to snatch a little light and keep out of the darkness for a while.<\/p><p>Fernanda and Michael&#8217;s journey is seen through the eyes and written by Michael Arthur Karpienski.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful Banality is a factual account of one international couple&#8217;s banal and ordinary life in one of the toughest cities in the world, New York City.&nbsp; In 2017, Fernanda and Michael met in the library at Parsons on the corner of 14th Street and 5th Avenue. Michael was getting his MFA in Creative Writing from The New School; he always dreamed of being a published writer. Fernanda was finishing her first semester at Parsons Fashion and Design; she always dreamed of being a creative director at a luxury fashion brand.&nbsp; The day their lives intersected things got far more complicated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1630,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","style--link-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3171,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/3171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beautifulbanality.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}