{"id":26,"date":"2025-12-05T07:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T07:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:48:00","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Edward Martin Polansky<\/strong> is semi-retired Certified Public Accountant, with more than 50 years in practice. He has had an ambition going back to his time working in a public library in high school to write a children\u2019s book depicting challenges that young people have to deal with in growing into maturity. Using his observations of the hurdles that young people face, he has woven a series of six books using Oscar the Osprey as his protagonist. Mr. Polansky follows Oscar\u2019s adventures and challenges from being an outcast as a youth to become admitted to the highest authority in the Osprey flock, a member of the Elder Council. The stories are all about his overcoming self-doubt, working with his unusual siblings, and achieving distinction with all the Ospreys and other animals in the forest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:260px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Martin Polansky is semi-retired Certified Public Accountant, with more than 50 years in practice. He has had an ambition going back to his time working in a public library in high school to write a children\u2019s book depicting challenges that young people have to deal with in growing into maturity. Using his observations of &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/about-the-author\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2107,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","no-comments"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/AuthorHouse\/862638\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}