{"id":26,"date":"2025-10-15T07:58:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2025-10-15T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:03:51","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Jo Anne Jeffries<\/strong>, a North Carolina native, is a graduate of Duke University where she majored in English and minored in history. She taught junior high school English and history before becoming a teacher in all subjects to homebound students in the third through twelfth grades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jeffries is nationally recognized for her work in the field of autism. She and her husband, Bill, a United Methodist minister, had four children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:287px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jo Anne Jeffries, a North Carolina native, is a graduate of Duke University where she majored in English and minored in history. She taught junior high school English and history before becoming a teacher in all subjects to homebound students in the third through twelfth grades. Jeffries is nationally recognized for her work in the &hellip; <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/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":1383,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-left-sidebar.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\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/BalboaPress\/855379\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}