{"id":2,"date":"2013-09-06T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-10-09T19:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T19:17:43","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Once a Boy by J. J. Irwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/09\/978-1-61204-858-1-JJIrwinCover.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-6\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" alt=\"9781612048581-Perfect.indd\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/09\/978-1-61204-858-1-JJIrwinCover.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/09\/978-1-61204-858-1-JJIrwinCover.jpg 575w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/09\/978-1-61204-858-1-JJIrwinCover-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a>About the Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>J. J. Irwin was <em>Once a Boy<\/em> growing up in Jolly Old England during the late 1950s and \u201860s, a time we now look back on as a simpler era, and we often call the good old days.<\/p>\n<p>Read about the customs of the times, which foreshadowed the computer age, and what it was like to grow up in a working-class family in southern Britain, where people didn\u2019t have a great deal, so \u201csome of us used to write stuff.\u201d The book shines a light on a young boy\u2019s interaction with the world and gives an accurate insight into the social structure of the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDrawing on personal childhood experience, I\u2019ve tried to portray a vivid picture of the customs and styles of that period, along with typical children\u2019s play and adventure, while describing products, systems, and technologies that were evolving,\u201d says the author. \u201cChildren become adults, but the child remains within us all. Therefore, this book is dedicated to children, however old you may be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2013\/09\/Irwin-JJ-Once-a-Boy-PR-Final.pdf\">View the Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>J. J. Irwin<\/strong> was inspired to write this book when he realized that truth can be far more intriguing than fiction. The author grew up in Northfleet, a town near the Thames Valley in southeastern England. His next book is an adventure about the founding of London during Roman times, which jumps forward to the 20th century.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book J. J. Irwin was Once a Boy growing up in Jolly Old England during the late 1950s and \u201860s, a time we now look back on as a simpler era, and we often call the good old days. Read about the customs of the times, which foreshadowed the computer age, and what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/16"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/jjirwin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}