{"id":2,"date":"2015-08-02T00:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T00:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-04-26T13:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:16:42","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2980.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2980.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-290\" style=\"width:73px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2980.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2980-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><strong>Cheri Newton \u2013 is a Writer and Storyteller, developing character-driven drama and genre storytelling across historical, contemporary and speculative worlds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her current focus is LAW OF SIMILARS (also known as THE HOMEOPATH&#8217;S DAUGHTER), a historical drama series in development.<\/p>\n<p>Her screenplay MUDLARKS was placed in the top 20% of the Academy Nicholl Fellowships, and her feature MAIL ORDER BRIDE (now titled LOVE IN AN AGE OF WAR) was semi-finalist at the Moondance International Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cheri&#8217;s writing draws on a diverse background spanning journalism, international relations, and screenwriting, including 15 years living and working in the UK. She holds a master&#8217;s degree in American Media and Popular Culture (Film and Screenwriting), a BA in International Relations and a Diploma in Homeopathy.<\/p>\n<p>Additional work includes travel writing published in<em> The Boston Globe\u00a0<\/em>and artist profiles, travel and cultural subjects in regional publications. Her short play, THE LETTER, made it to the penultimate round of judging at Windsor Fringe&#8217;s Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. The content of that play served as catalyst to her developing the material into a deeper dramatic work called MRS NEWTON&#8217;S COTTAGE.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheri Newton \u2013 is a Writer and Storyteller, developing character-driven drama and genre storytelling across <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/?page_id=2\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/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-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":319,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherinewton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}