{"id":27821,"date":"2026-04-04T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?page_id=27821"},"modified":"2026-04-04T01:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:20:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?page_id=27821","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Alan Skeoch<\/strong> has authored and co-authored 10 books. He was a CBC radio writer and commentator for 10 years. He is the winner of the Marshal McLuhan medal for communication. In 1999, Alan <a href=\"https:\/\/www7.mississauga.ca\/documents\/library\/biographies\/Scans\/Peel%20Biography%20Scans%20-%20S\/Skeoch,%20Alan%20MN%2019990926.pdf\">won the Governor General\u2019s Award<\/a> for Outstanding Teaching from Canada\u2019s National History Society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/face.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27813\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Skeoch has authored and co-authored 10 books. He was a CBC radio writer and commentator for 10 years. He is the winner of the Marshal McLuhan medal for communication. In 1999, Alan won the Governor General\u2019s Award for Outstanding Teaching from Canada\u2019s National History Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27813,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-27821","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27823,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27821\/revisions\/27823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}