{"id":117,"date":"2015-12-21T16:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T23:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/mystories\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T17:14:13","slug":"aboutalessandro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?page_id=117","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1095 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bio_grey-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" data-kale-share-title=\"Alessandro\" data-kale-share-url=\"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/about-2\/\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bio_grey-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bio_grey-676x1024.jpg 676w, https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/bio_grey.jpg 758w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alessandro grew up in Rome. The eclectic collection of his youthful endeavors (night manager at a shady hotel, photographer, dishwasher, antiques salesman) and his love of literature have culminated in his passion for telling stories.<\/p>\n<p>After a double major in comparative literature and economics, he moved to Milan, where he worked as operational risk analyst for an NGO and met the love of his life. The two came to California for their honeymoon and never left.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro has worked as quantitative analyst in finance, was a member of San Francisco Writer\u2019s Workshop for seven years, speaks a few languages, and is terrified of most shiny things, especially mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>He writes fiction as Alex Chance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #66a8c6;\">Instagram: <a style=\"color: #66a8c6;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Author_Alessandro\/\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/Author_Alessandro\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alessandro grew up in Rome. The eclectic collection of his youthful endeavors (night manager at a shady hotel, photographer, dishwasher, antiques salesman) and his love of literature have culminated in his passion for telling stories. After a double major in comparative literature and economics, he&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/?page_id=117\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-117","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/117\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alessandrob.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}