{"id":15,"date":"2015-07-13T23:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2015-07-13T23:01:57","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T23:01:57","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" data-header=\"true\" data-footer=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/tgaw\/18771963051\/in\/album-72157654088558099\/\" title=\"National Maker Faire - Vicky and Items\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8852\/18771963051_31491ee37c.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"National Maker Faire - Vicky and Items\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Greetings, my name is Vicky!  I&#8217;m a computer programmer, a mommy of two young sons, and 3D Printing enthusiast!  My 3D Printing journey began with BREASTFEEDING!  When my second son was an infant, a friend of mine started selling Origami Owl lockets.  The concept is you buy a glass locket and then you buy charms to put inside it to &#8220;tell your story.&#8221;  At the time, a big part of my story was breastfeeding.  Alas, Origami Owl did not have a breastfeeding charm, but that is the beauty of 3D printing!  I am not bound to buy what other people decided to manufacture and market.  I can make what *I* want.  I taught myself Blender (with a huge shout out to all the ample tutorials made by the Blender community, particularly Jonathan Williamson) and made myself a very simple model based on the Public Domain International Symbol of Breastfeeding.   I didn&#8217;t own a 3D Printer, but no worries on that front, not when there are 3D printing service companies out there like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shapeways.com\" target=\"_blank\">Shapeways<\/a>.  I ordered my print and about a week later, my Origami Owl locket was sporting a breastfeeding charm.  And just like that, I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>In March of 2015 my family surprised me for my birthday with a 3D Printer of my very own&#8211; a MakerGear M2.  I *thought* I loved 3D printing before, but boy, I had no idea.  I&#8217;ve been expanding my knowledge daily&#8230;and become quite the little filament hoarder.<\/p>\n<p>I love speaking about 3D modeling and printing.  I love teaching and am happy to share everything I&#8217;ve learned so far.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> Vicky[at]tgaw[dot]com<br \/>\n<strong>Twitter:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tgaw\" target=\"_blank\">@TGAW<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Instagram:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/instagram.com\/VickyTGAW\" target=\"_blank\">@VickyTGAW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, my name is Vicky! I&#8217;m a computer programmer, a mommy of two young sons, and 3D Printing enthusiast! My 3D Printing journey began with BREASTFEEDING! When my second son was an infant, a friend of mine started selling Origami Owl lockets. The concept is you buy a glass locket and then you buy charms &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tgaw.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}