{"id":231,"date":"2010-08-29T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-29T10:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/?page_id=231"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:34:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T12:34:32","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/?page_id=231","title":{"rendered":"Personal information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"Hilary Munro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hilarymunro.com\/hmunro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hilary Munro is a freelance published writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her interests in history, archeology and social issues are reflected in her published writings in a wide variety of internationally known published magazines and newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>Her work has been printed in The Times (London), The Corkman (Ireland), Yachting Monthly (UK magazine), The Chronicle and Obelisque (Cairo), Go-Nomad (on-line travel) as well as other publications in Malaysia,Indonesia,Libya and Egypt. Since 2014, she has concentrated on researching family history and written <em>The Seedsman&#8217;s Daughter,<\/em> a creative non-fiction book on the life of her grandparents Fred and May Chater-Jack as pioneer settlers in the White Highlands, Kenya between the two World Wars.<\/p>\n<p>Audio work, centred on social issues in the slums of Cairo, has been broadcast on The BBC World Service Outlook programme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hilary Munro is a freelance published writer based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her interests in history, archeology and social issues are reflected in her published writings in a wide variety of internationally known published magazines and newspapers. Her work has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/?page_id=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-231","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035,"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/231\/revisions\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.HilaryMunro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}