{"id":2,"date":"2008-08-11T23:28:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T03:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:21:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:21:48","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irenejackson.com\/IJBW1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Irene Jackson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.irenejackson.com\/IJBW1.jpg\" alt=\"Irene Jackson\" width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irene Jackson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Irene Jackson is a retired singer\/songwriter, composer and guitar teacher from Victoria BC in Canada. Her songwriting tips website was first on the web in 1995 and was one of the most popular songwriting websites online for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>IJ&#8217;s Song Blog is one of three IJ blogs, the two others being Irene&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irenejackson.com\/guitar\">Guitar Blog,<\/a>\u00a0featuring tips and tricks on playing guitar, and her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irenejackson.com\">Main Site<\/a> featuring some of her other writing.<\/p>\n<p>In her retirement, Irene continues to write and paint in between bouts of travel.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe if you&#8217;d like to keep in touch. Otherwise, enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Irene Jackson is a retired singer\/songwriter, composer and guitar teacher from Victoria BC in Canada. Her songwriting tips website was first on the web in 1995 and was one of the most popular songwriting websites online for a number of years. IJ&#8217;s Song Blog is one of three IJ blogs, the two others being Irene&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/Prwoq-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2462,"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irenejackson.com\/songblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}