{"id":1,"date":"2013-03-12T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/?p=1"},"modified":"2017-06-28T00:01:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T00:01:37","slug":"ship-life-author","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"About Michelle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1972 in Chertsey (South of England), Michelle grew up in the North of England, in South Yorkshire.\u00a0 A dancer from the age of 6 with Gillian Banks Dancing School, Michelle began teaching at 12 and compiling show and exam music by 16.\u00a0 By 22, she was a professional DJ.<\/p>\n<p>A solo traveller on her first cruise, two years later Michelle made the leap to working on ships with P&amp;O Cruises at 36 as an Entertainment Officer\/DJ crewmember. \u00a0Michelle soon after secured a contractual DJ position for Princess Cruises as a Guest Entertainer.<\/p>\n<p>Happily settled on land, Michelle is an IT Support Technician by day and DJ and Tutor by night. \u00a0Michelle was invited to speak at her local library and offered a Q&amp;A session where a good night was had by all.<\/p>\n<p>Here follows an array of Speaking video&#8217;s Michelle has compiled.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"(1) Michelle Leverick - Behind the book Intro.mov\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lRrppyRGxAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2 Michelle Leverick   Behind The Book   Part 2\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lWXmzc2Xiz8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Michelle Leverick   Behind The Book   Part 3\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G9y36ZNd13Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/8004198.Michelle_Leverick\">Goodreads Author Page<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1972 in Chertsey (South of England), Michelle grew up in the North of England, in South Yorkshire.\u00a0 A dancer from the age of 6 with Gillian Banks Dancing School, Michelle began teaching at 12 and compiling show and exam music by 16.\u00a0 By 22, she was a professional DJ. A solo traveller on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Michelle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-media-clips","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":68,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shiplife.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}