[Bug]: Author name on blog cards doesn't redirect to the author page

[anurag-p6]

Consisely describe the issue

On the home page and features page, clicking an author's name on a blog card doesn't go to the author's profile, it just lands on https://blog.podman.io/author/ with no slug, which is a broken/generic URL.

The problem is in the WordPress REST API query. The _fields parameter doesn't include author, and it turns out the author_info field depends on author being present in the request to correctly build the author URL slug.

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