{"id":57016,"date":"2017-05-17T17:13:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T21:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=57016"},"modified":"2017-12-19T10:49:26","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T15:49:26","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-kiki-kazickas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-personalities-meet-kiki-kazickas\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Kiki Kazickas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-57017 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/KikiKazickas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"813\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Kiki Kazickas, Associate Buyer &#8211; Food, Drink and Garden<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>My hometown is&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Tri-state area.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m inspired by&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nThe endless opportunities for exploration both abroad and within our own country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What I love about Merchandising is..<\/strong>.<br \/>\nNurturing the connection between designers, retailers, and customers with exceptional product.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I\u2019m not at work, I\u2019m usually&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nActing as sous chef in our kitchen and playing with our foster dogs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My favorite place to bring out-of-towners is&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\n6BC Botanical Garden. This community garden was near my old apartment in Alphabet City and it is truly a magical oasis.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In the summer I like to&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nLet the sun shine on my SPF-covered face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>An uncommon fact about me is&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nI named myself. My parents couldn\u2019t figure out the right nickname for me, so at 2 years old I declared myself \u201cKiki\u201d and haven\u2019t gone by my legal name since.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could put my desk anywhere in the world it would be&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nOn the deck of a boat where it will always be 80 degrees and sunny and I can travel to wherever I like. Then move it to a van for inland adventures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiki Kazickas, Associate Buyer &#8211; Food, Drink and Garden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":57017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[1170,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57016"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57072,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57016\/revisions\/57072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}