{"id":355,"date":"2025-01-28T16:56:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T16:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/farmingfuturescycle\/?page_id=355"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:15:36","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/farmingfuturescycle\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Hi! I&#8217;m Veronica.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m a second-year Human Geography PhD student at the University of Exeter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born in the United States and raised in the Netherlands, where my love for cycling was born. I moved to England in 2015 to study at the University of East Anglia in Norwich. 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