{"id":2,"date":"2021-06-11T13:56:17","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T17:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/layers\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2022-01-25T16:43:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T21:43:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-963 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/243\/2022\/01\/Roberta_ABOUT_PAGE_MERTON.psd_.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"576\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>PROLOGUE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I was born in Canada in 1941 just as the heat was being turned up<br \/>\nunder the inferno in Europe of World War II.<br \/>\nMy father joined the Allied Forces, the Irish Regiment, and was shipped out<br \/>\nbefore I was born, returning to us in 1945.<br \/>\nThe free world celebrated and my life began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">My first public performances at age 4 were in Legion halls \u00a0where the<br \/>\ntroops were entertained. I danced to the sound of bagpipes <\/span><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">and in a<br \/>\ntiny voice warbled song lyrics like <\/span><em style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><em>There\u2019ll be blue birds over<br \/>\nthe white cliffs of Dover,<\/em><\/em><em style=\"font-size: 17px;\">\u00a0tomorrow just you wait and see.<br \/>\n<\/em><span style=\"font-family: inherit;\">The veterans applauded me enthusiastically and ordered up another round of beer.<br \/>\nI was a hit!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Show business! I was hooked.<\/p>\n<p>Roberta demo reel courtesy of The Katz Company<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/thekatzcompany.com\/robertamaxwell\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/thekatzcompany.com\/robertamaxwell\/home<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROLOGUE I was born in Canada in 1941 just as the heat was being turned up under the inferno in Europe of World War II. My father joined the Allied Forces, the Irish Regiment, and was shipped out before I was born, returning to us in 1945. The free world celebrated and my life began. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-about.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"metadata":{"_wp_page_template":["page-about.php"],"_edit_last":["264"],"_wpac_members_redirect_to":[""],"_wpac_show_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_show_excerpt_in_search":["0"],"_wpac_nonmembers_redirect_to":[""],"ase_chapter_enable_timeline":["off"],"_oembed_5d8c0a42d2252cedd507b32c4bcce771":["{{unknown}}"],"_oembed_0c50cc0c30b07c74c3f5802a0f0267d3":["{{unknown}}"],"_oembed_be4d9ac904da122dc93710d19a2602ea":["{{unknown}}"],"_oembed_51af48c99cef014fa261a49a46dbfab8":["{{unknown}}"],"_oembed_74194bba33a30d60d7c3affc10f59a07":["{{unknown}}"],"_edit_lock":["1643147041:264"],"ase_map_component_start_point":["a:2:{s:3:\"lat\";d:29.76;s:3:\"lng\";d:-95.38;}"],"ase_mapbox_style":["openstreet"]},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/performingartslegacy.org\/maxwellroberta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}