{"id":773,"date":"2014-02-09T21:26:04","date_gmt":"2014-02-09T21:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/?page_id=773"},"modified":"2014-03-31T21:16:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T21:16:01","slug":"bio-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/?page_id=773","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have always been interested in people who lived outside of the cultural norm. I believe this comes from my background as a child of immigrant parents. Even though I was born in the United States and was fully immersed in American culture, I had another side to in my upbringing of being fully immersed in the Hungarian community here in Pittsburgh. I like many first generation Americans were always made aware of our strong ancestral connection to our country of origin. The first language I ever spoke was Hungarian. I participated in many activities related to the community: Magyar Scouts, Hungarian summer school and the Hungarian Reformed Church. In my youth I spent weekends at Magyar Park, a 150 acre farm bought by large group of Hungarians to keep the community together. I would spend my summers there at our large man made lake called \u2018Little Balaton\u2019 named after it\u2019s larger counterpart in Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>The duality of being in two cultures has lead me to develop a keen sense of awareness of my surroundings and why I believe I was drawn to photography as a young teen.\u00a0I realized then that the camera could be a way to record the world around me.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/?attachment_id=795\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-795\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-795\" alt=\"cropped\" src=\"http:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cropped-284x300.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cropped-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cropped-970x1024.jpg 970w, https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/cropped-37x40.jpg 37w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have always been interested in people who lived outside of the cultural norm. I believe this comes from my background as a child of immigrant parents. Even though I was born in the United States and was fully immersed in American culture, I had another side to in my upbringing of being fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-773","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/773\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zsuzsimatolcsy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}