{"id":66,"date":"2009-05-30T15:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2015-07-05T09:59:06","modified_gmt":"2015-07-05T09:59:06","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/?page_id=66","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Drinkall is a\u00a0writer\u00a0and historian who lives in Rotherham. Having now retired she is concentrating on writing full time. She has an interest in local history, and true crime and has managed to combine these two interests very successfully into her books.<\/p>\n<p>Margaret has written numerous books, one of the most popular (and the first published) being the Rotherham Workhouse book, which still sells remarkably well many years later.<\/p>\n<p>However, even though Margaret is still writing books for publishers, she has embraced the concept of Self-Published works, via the rapidly growing eBook industry. This has enabled her to produce books that traditional publishers would have been unable or unwilling to accept, and tell stories which might have been lost in the fog of time forever.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, Margaret is still writing books in both formats, and has an established <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Margaret-Drinkall\/256805884522545\">facebook page<\/a> where other people can connect and stay in touch with developments, and be the first to hear about the occasional free book which is released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margaret Drinkall is a\u00a0writer\u00a0and historian who lives in Rotherham. Having now retired she is concentrating on writing full time. She has an interest in local history, and true crime and has managed to combine these two interests very successfully into her books. Margaret has written numerous books, one of the most popular (and the first &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/?page_id=66\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About the Author<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":273,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":980,"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions\/980"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/margaretdrinkall.co.uk\/MD\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}