{"id":225,"date":"2013-10-30T06:08:12","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T06:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eriktailor.com\/wordpress3\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2024-11-21T22:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T22:50:47","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/?page_id=225","title":{"rendered":"Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<a href=\"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/amyCU-webfoto2020.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2021\" src=\"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/amyCU-webfoto2020-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/amyCU-webfoto2020-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/itchy.biz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/amyCU-webfoto2020.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/\">Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison Oak Rash, Prevent Exposure and Eradicate the Plant<\/a>. Her latest is <a href=\"https:\/\/wilddallasfortworth.com\/wild\/\">Wild DFW: Explore the Amazing Nature Around Dallas-Fort Worth<\/a>\u00a0on Timber Press, a phenomenally popular book in North Texas. Her talks and guided walks are very much in demand. She is senior features writer for <a href=\"https:\/\/GreenSourceDFW.org\">Green Source DFW<\/a>. A current project is <a href=\"https:\/\/nedfritz.com\">Ned Fritz Legacy<\/a>, a biographical website of Ned Fritz, Texas&#8217; most famous environmentalist. Find her writings at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/moonlady.com\">Moonlady.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martin sits on the board of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallascounty.org\/departments\/plandev\/openspaces\">Dallas County Open Space&#8217;s Trails and Preserves Program<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/FriendsofLLELA.org\">Friends of Lewisville Lake Environmental Learning Area<\/a>. She managed wildlife habitat rehabilitation on a private nature preserve in northeast Texas for twelve years, including converting fifteen acres of pasture into tallgrass prairie.<\/p>\n<p>As contributing editor and Dear Garbage columnist for the national magazine Garbage (recycling and features) in the \u201880s, she garnered a spot in the debut edition of Who&#8217;s Who in Environmental Journalism. She has written for\u00a0Dallas Morning News\u00a0(recycling and op-eds),\u00a0Dallas Observer\u00a0(music and comedy), TheaterJones (comedy, magic, and cirque), and\u00a0D\u00a0magazine and\u00a0Dallas Times Herald\u00a0(performing arts).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]A journalist and writer for over 40 years, Amy Martin is the author of Itchy Business: How to Treat the Poison Ivy and Poison &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1276,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-225","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2022,"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/225\/revisions\/2022"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itchy.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}