{"id":211,"date":"2022-09-12T15:11:40","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T13:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mariacristinapritelli.com\/new\/about\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T17:56:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:56:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mariacristinapritelli.com\/new\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I live and work in Italy, after High school I took a degree in Fashion Design at Polimoda (Florence-Italy) and worked as a fashion designer, but that was not what I really wanted to\u00a0do in my life.\u00a0<br>While working I attended a children book illustration workshop run by the Italian illustrator Giacinto Gaudenzi.<br>Since then I discovered that my great passion was 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