{"id":2,"date":"2009-12-20T14:19:13","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T18:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-03T07:24:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:24:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Tricia Tierney"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tricia Tierney was born and raised in New York City and Connecticut and earned an art degree in northern Kentucky. Armed with a BFA in sculpture, she moved to Kyoto, Japan and lived there for more than 3 years. Upon her return to New York City, she landed a job as a United Nations guide where she gave excellent English and passable Japanese tours and developed a passion for social justice and world affairs. At the height of the war in former Yugoslavia, Tricia took a post with the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces and later, UNICEF-Croatia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During her years in the countries of what used to be Yugoslavia, Tricia became adept at going long periods without electricity or water, learned to distinguish between incoming and outgoing mortar fire, was hosted for lunch by war criminals and married a British relief worker who is the co-subject of her completed, unpublished memoir. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Things We Cannot Change<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was written in the early hours of the morning before going to her day-job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently retired after 27 years, Tricia worked for Barnes &amp; Noble Booksellers in Connecticut.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tricia is currently working on a memoir inspired by her 1930\u2019s house in need of repair and full of memories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tricia can be reached at triciactierney@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tricia Tierney was born and raised in New York City and Connecticut and earned an art degree in northern Kentucky. Armed with a BFA in sculpture, she moved to Kyoto, Japan and lived there for more than 3 years. Upon her return to New York City, she landed a job as a United Nations guide &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tricia Tierney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PPzTS-2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163479,"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/163479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/triciatierneyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}