{"id":84,"date":"2019-08-15T15:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T13:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?page_id=84"},"modified":"2019-08-19T16:04:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T14:04:37","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?page_id=84","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"866\" src=\"http:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sky-1-1024x866.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"180\" data-link=\"http:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/?attachment_id=180\" class=\"wp-image-180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sky-1-1024x866.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sky-1-300x254.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Sky-1-768x649.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>My name is Christophe Paternoster. I was born in Belgium in 1989 and started writing poetry when I was around 15 years old. I quickly realized that poetry was a way of expressing my emotions, and thus of controlling them better, because a good communication ultimately leads to more control, doesn&#8217;t it? By writing poetry, I can look at what I feel and cristallise it, transform it into something beautiful. All the poems I wrote become then windows showing past emotions that I felt, things that I observed, or even promised I made myself. I strongly believe that poetry can be an extremely powerful tool and I&#8217;m not afraid to say that it saved my life more than once, it gave my life a meaning. I grew up in the south of Belgium, so my mother tongue is French. I started writing in French when I was a teenager and I still have a few French poems that I really like. I&#8217;m going to post those ones with an English translation below, so that you can enjoy the beauty of the original text while also understanding its meaning if you don&#8217;t speak French. Since I lived in England a few years ago and I have a lot of international friends, I want to communicate to as many people as possible, so I write most of my poems in English. I&#8217;m constantly looking for new inspirations and new ways of writing my poems, I also want to keep improving. I hope you&#8217;ll enjoy them, let me know what you think, your feedbacks might help me become a better poet.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for your feedback: please use the attached form:<\/p>\n\n\n<div role=\"form\" class=\"wpcf7\" id=\"wpcf7-f5-o1\" lang=\"fr-FR\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"screen-reader-response\"><p role=\"status\" aria-live=\"polite\" aria-atomic=\"true\"><\/p> <ul><\/ul><\/div>\n<form action=\"\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fpages%2F84#wpcf7-f5-o1\" method=\"post\" class=\"wpcf7-form init\" novalidate=\"novalidate\" data-status=\"init\">\n<div style=\"display: none;\">\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7\" value=\"5\" \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_version\" value=\"5.3\" \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_locale\" value=\"fr_FR\" \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_unit_tag\" value=\"wpcf7-f5-o1\" \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_container_post\" value=\"0\" \/>\n<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"_wpcf7_posted_data_hash\" value=\"\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><label> Your name (required)<br \/>\n    <span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-name\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"your-name\" value=\"\" size=\"40\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-validates-as-required\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" \/><\/span> <\/label><\/p>\n<p><label> Your email address (required)<br \/>\n    <span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-email\"><input type=\"email\" name=\"your-email\" value=\"\" size=\"40\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text wpcf7-email wpcf7-validates-as-required wpcf7-validates-as-email\" aria-required=\"true\" aria-invalid=\"false\" \/><\/span> <\/label><\/p>\n<p><label> Subject<br \/>\n    <span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-subject\"><input type=\"text\" name=\"your-subject\" value=\"\" size=\"40\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text\" aria-invalid=\"false\" \/><\/span> <\/label><\/p>\n<p><label> Your message<br \/>\n    <span class=\"wpcf7-form-control-wrap your-message\"><textarea name=\"your-message\" cols=\"40\" rows=\"10\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-textarea\" aria-invalid=\"false\"><\/textarea><\/span> <\/label><\/p>\n<p><input type=\"submit\" value=\"Send\" class=\"wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-submit\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpcf7-response-output\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div><\/form><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks for your feedback: please use the attached form:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":366,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrispoetry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}