{"id":257,"date":"2010-06-29T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/06\/29\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Mike Sonksen, also known as Mike the Poet, is widely acclaimed for his live performances, contributions to international publications &amp; legendary city tours. Poet, journalist, historian, tour guide, teacher, he&#8217;s published in the L.A. Citybeat, <span style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;\">Wax Poetics<\/span><\/span>, O.C. Weekly, New Angeles, L.A. Weekly &amp; many others. This <span style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;\"><span style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;\"><span>3rd generation<\/span><\/span><\/span> L.A. native graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1997.&nbsp;His book I AM ALIVE IN LOS ANGeLES! has been added to the curriculum of several universities &amp; received rave reviews.&nbsp;Mike&#8217;s performed his poetry coast to coast at college campuses, museums, bookstores, nightclubs &amp; just about any venue you can imagine. His <span style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;\"><span><span><span>Los Angeles city tours<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> combine poetry and history and have been written up in the <span><span style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;\"><span><span style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; cursor: hand;\">New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, The UK Guardian, <span><span><span class=\"yshortcuts\">Washington Post<\/span><\/span><\/span>, <span><span><span><span style=\"border-bottom: #0066cc 1px dashed;\"><span class=\"yshortcuts\" style=\"border-bottom: #366388 2px dotted; cursor: hand;\">Los Angeles Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Citybeat<\/span>&nbsp;&amp; many others.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-257\" data-postid=\"257\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-257 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Mike Sonksen, also known as Mike the Poet, is widely acclaimed for his live performances, contributions to international publications &amp; legendary city tours. Poet, journalist, historian, tour guide, teacher, he&#8217;s published in the L.A. Citybeat, Wax Poetics, O.C. Weekly, New Angeles, L.A. Weekly &amp; many others. This 3rd generation L.A. native graduated from U.C.L.A. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}