{"id":7,"date":"2014-12-12T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T15:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2014-12-19T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:03:45","slug":"about-joanne","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"About Joanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22\" style=\"width: 144px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/joanneliu144.jpg\" alt=\"Sierra Exif JPEG\" width=\"144\" height=\"144\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne S. Liu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joanne holds an A.B. from Brown University and a\u00a0J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she was both a contributing author and the notes editor for the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><i>Annual Review of Banking Law Journal<\/i>. Her publications have been cited by numerous sources, including in federal court decisions and law school journals. A former attorney, Joanne practiced law in Boston, Mass., where she specialized in condominium law and real estate developments. She also served as the approved-attorney department manager at Chicago Title in Austin, Texas. Her time as an attorney honed\u00a0her business and research skills, essential skills she uses in her writing career.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne devotes much of her time to <strong>business writing<\/strong> for her clients, many of whom are key players in the banking, mortgage,\u00a0and loan industry. Read more about her business writing <a title=\"Business Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=11\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She also produces history articles, lesson plans, and study guides for educational publishers. Her subjects vary, and have included American history, India&#8217;s monsoon season, ancient civilizations, the French Revolution, the Aztec Empire, and Tudor England. She is the author of <em>Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West<\/em>, which chronicles the pivotal role of barbed wire in the settling of the American West. Read more about her <strong>educational writing<\/strong> <a title=\"Educational Writing\" href=\"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=124\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne also writes for<strong> consumer magazines<\/strong> and <strong>trade journals<\/strong>. She specializes in mortgages,\u00a0lending, travel, health, and history. Read more about her magazine articles <a title=\"Writing for Magazines\" href=\"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=9\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a title=\"Books\" href=\"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/?page_id=110\">here <\/a>to read more about her books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanne holds an A.B. from Brown University and a\u00a0J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where she was both a contributing author and the notes editor for the\u00a0Annual Review of Banking Law Journal. Her publications have been cited by numerous<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5sM7B-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/joanneliu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}