{"id":6,"date":"2016-03-10T02:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T02:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:41:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T14:41:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a musician, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and mother of two living in Bedford, Virginia. I play the qanun (a 78-stringed zither, hence the name of this site), fiddle, piano, and several other instruments (banjo, guitar, `ud, uke, Arabic percussion).<\/p>\n<p>I teach music classes for all grade levels at the World Community Education Center, a Montessori school in Bedford County, Virginia. I am also the director of <em>Itraab<\/em>, an Arabic music ensemble that is a project of the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n<p>My other professional activities include consulting and grantwriting for non-profit organizations and arts organizations.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy my site!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-18\" src=\"http:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AET-headshot-246x300.jpg\" alt=\"Version 2\" width=\"246\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AET-headshot-246x300.jpg 246w, https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/AET-headshot.jpg 525w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 246px) 100vw, 246px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a musician, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and mother of two living in Bedford, Virginia. I play the qanun (a 78-stringed zither, hence the name of this site), fiddle, piano, and several other instruments (banjo, guitar, `ud, uke, Arabic percussion). I teach music classes for all grade levels at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.78strings.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}