{"id":17,"date":"2014-11-26T01:14:06","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2014-11-26T01:14:06","modified_gmt":"2014-11-26T01:14:06","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/196\/2013\/12\/Walter-James.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/196\/2013\/12\/Walter-James.jpg\" alt=\"Walter James\" width=\"214\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/196\/2013\/12\/Walter-James.jpg 214w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/196\/2013\/12\/Walter-James-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/a>Walter James<\/strong> is originally from New York City, where he grew up in an orphanage and visited friends in the barrio of Spanish Harlem during the pre-civil rights era. He wrote the majority of this poetry collection in 1980. He is a nationally registered respiratory therapist and holds a certified letter from a Chinese Master to teach Kung Fu and Tai Chi Chuan after 15 years of training. He carries a knife scar on his throat and a bullet in his hip, and credits his survival to his Chinese training. His first book is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.strategicpublishinggroup.com\/title\/AutobiographyOfAnAmericanOrphan.html\">Autobiography of an American Orphan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter James is originally from New York City, where he grew up in an orphanage and visited friends in the barrio of Spanish Harlem during the pre-civil rights era. He wrote the majority of this poetry collection in 1980. He is a nationally registered respiratory therapist and holds a certified letter from a Chinese Master [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/walterjames\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}