{"id":47,"name":"Michael Merschel","url":"https:\/\/www.merschel.net\/","description":"Michael Merschel's three decades in journalism include 12 years as Books Editor for <i>The Dallas Morning News <\/i>. where he conducted onstage interviews with Khaled Hosseini, Kwame Alexander, and Susan Orlean. Also a novelist, his <i>Revenge of the Star Survivors<\/i>won the Texas Institute of Letters\u2019 award for best middle-grade book in 2018. Before that, he contributed to public radio\u2019s <i>A Prairie Home Companion<\/i> and composed an out-of-office reply that was mentioned in <i>The New York Times<\/i> and featured on NPR. Learn more at http:\/\/www.merschel.net.","link":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/author\/mike-merschel\/","slug":"mike-merschel","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-48x48.jpg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-96x96.jpg"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":{"media_id":50651,"full":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled.jpg","192":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-192x192.jpg","96":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-96x96.jpg","160":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-160x160.jpg","80":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-80x80.jpg","64":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-64x64.jpg","32":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-32x32.jpg","24":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-24x24.jpg","48":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/MerschelMug-scaled-48x48.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writersatlarge.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}