{"id":23,"date":"2014-03-09T04:44:20","date_gmt":"2014-03-09T04:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2014-03-12T17:10:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T17:10:56","slug":"alexandra-marks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/alex-headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"alex headshot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/alex-headshot-300x270.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alexandra Marks has three decades\u2019 experience reporting national and international news for print and broadcast media. She covered politics, energy, social issues, aviation and the 9\/11 terrorist attacks for the\u00a0<em>Christian Science Monitor,<\/em>\u00a0and her wide-ranging experience includes a stint on Capitol Hill as then-Senator John Kerry\u2019s national press secretary in the 1990s. More recently, she wrote an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/About\/Staff\/Alexandra-Marks\/(view)\/all\">online column<\/a> about the green, cost-effective renovation of Sheep Dog Hollow, an abandoned farmhouse in Connecticut. She is currently at work on a historical novel, a Victorian farce involving a prude, prostitutes and the birth of the feminist movement. \u00a0 The narrative has been described as &#8220;comic and compelling.&#8221; She may be reached at alexandrambmarks at gmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p>Selected Stories:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2012\/0422\/With-all-this-natural-gas-who-needs-oil\">With All Of This National Gas, Who Needs Oil?<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(2012)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Environment\/Eco-renovation\/2009\/archive\/photo-gallery-sheep-dog-hollow-framing-a-green-dream-home\">Sheep Dog Hollow: Framing a Green Dream<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(2009)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\" http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2008\/0820\/watchdogs-make-it-harder-for-politicians-to-stretch-the-truth\">Politicians Gilding the Lily<\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(2008)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2008\/0410\/p01s01-uspo.html\">Change Campaigns: Can They Deliver?<\/a>&#8220;<em>\u00a0Christian Science Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(2008)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2002\/0909\/p01s01-ussc.html\">2002 9\/11 Anniversary: New York City, Undimmed Beacon for Dreamers<\/a>&#8221;\u00a0<em>Christian Science Monitor<\/em>\u00a0(2002)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandra Marks has three decades\u2019 experience reporting national and international news for print and broadcast media. She covered politics, energy, social issues, aviation and the 9\/11 terrorist attacks for the\u00a0Christian Science Monitor,\u00a0and her wide-ranging experience includes a stint on Capitol Hill as then-Senator John Kerry\u2019s national press secretary in the 1990s. More recently, she wrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-23","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramarks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}