{"id":2,"date":"2013-06-05T21:06:37","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T03:17:12","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-873 size-medium\" title=\"At Lake Travis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vic_Lake-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vic_Lake-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vic_Lake-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vic_Lake-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Vic_Lake.jpg 1017w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Growing up, I lived in various parts of Maryland. \u00a0After high school, I traveled with a church group to Poland for the summer, then I spent a year at a bible college in Dallas, and shortly thereafter, moved to Texas for good!\u00a0\u00a0Eventually my husband and I settled in the Austin area where we have three beautiful children.<\/p>\n<p>My professional background is in bookkeeping, accounting, and tax preparation where I have over 30 years experience.\u00a0 I also completed a two-year training course in solar energy and\u00a0 PV design and installation.\u00a0 However, without an electrical background, it has been difficult to utilize this training.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, I became active in the firearms industry and began competing in IDPA matches.\u00a0 Shortly thereafter, I started working at an indoor gun range, and eventually, I became certified as a <a href=\"http:\/\/training.victoriakogan.com\">Firearms instructor and a Texas License to Carry instructor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, I became a bookkeeper and launched <a href=\"http:\/\/tacticalhoney.com\">Tactical Honey<\/a> where my goal is to connect landowners with healthy, sustainable honeybee practices. I offer beekeeping services for property owners seeking tax savings through hassle-free, turn-key bee leases, as well as swarm captures, colony removals, and consulting to help people care for bees with confidence and care.<\/p>\n<p>With a busy life, there&#8217;s not much free time.\u00a0 But whenever possible, I try to spend time with my family and count my blessings every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up, I lived in various parts of Maryland. \u00a0After high school, I traveled with a church group to Poland for the summer, then I spent a year at a bible college in Dallas, and shortly thereafter, moved to Texas for good!\u00a0\u00a0Eventually my husband and I settled in the Austin area where we have three &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.victoriakogan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}