{"id":156,"date":"2010-03-23T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T04:06:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"christina-galante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/2010\/03\/23\/christina-galante\/","title":{"rendered":"Christina Galante"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Galante has been&nbsp;the retail and events manager at Los Angeles non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.826la.org\/\">826LA<\/a> for the past 3 years. Founded by Dave Eggers, 826LA offers free after-school tutoring and creative writing programs to students 6-18 and is one of eight locations across the US.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from New York, Christina lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10+ years and made her way through the garment, publishing, advertising\/communications\/PR and retail industries before moving California in 2005. After totally missing the mark and spending three lost years in San Diego, she made her way to Los Angeles in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Most days you can either find her in the Echo Park Time Travel Mart slinging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymonster.com\/photos\/timetravel\/mammothchunks.html\">Mammoth Chunks<\/a> and time machine fuel or planning fundraisers like the Echo Park Lake Paddle Boat Regatta and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.826la.org\/chickensinlove\/pledge-now\/\">Chickens in Love<\/a> (a full length record with songs written by kids and performed by LA bands).<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-156\" data-postid=\"156\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-156 themify_builder\">\n    <\/div>\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christina Galante has been&nbsp;the retail and events manager at Los Angeles non-profit 826LA for the past 3 years. Founded by Dave Eggers, 826LA offers free after-school tutoring and creative writing programs to students 6-18 and is one of eight locations across the US. Originally from New York, Christina lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn for 10+ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lavatransforms.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}