{"id":34043,"date":"2023-03-27T05:10:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=34043"},"modified":"2023-03-27T05:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-03-27T09:10:23","slug":"from-illiterate-to-best-selling-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/03\/from-illiterate-to-best-selling-author\/","title":{"rendered":"From Illiterate To Best Selling Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This woman learned to read at 39, and is now a best-selling author!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Karen Woods, now 53, left school at 15 when she was pregnant. She took an adult literacy course at age 39, and realized she had a gift for the written word.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now, she&#8217;s writing her 27th book.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;I feel I represent all those people who had bad starts in life,&#8221; Woods said. &#8220;I want to be the inspiration for women who think that because they&#8217;ve got kids, they can&#8217;t do what they want.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Woods is also an ambassador for Adult Learning and visits prisons to give inspirational talks.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Good News ","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":32912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-good-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 00:25:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/good-news\/2023\/03\/from-illiterate-to-best-selling-author\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34044,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34043\/revisions\/34044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}