{"id":758,"date":"2014-03-07T13:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T15:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?page_id=758"},"modified":"2016-04-20T17:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-04-20T20:52:23","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lullaby Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJauthor.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/SJauthor-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"Author Susan Joyce in 2103\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m Susan Joyce, an author, artist, and perpetual dreamer. At age 20, I left the United States to see the world. I planned a one-year adventure, but ended up living my 20s and 30s in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, I worked as a secretary, freelance travel writer, taught computer classes, wrote songs, became an accomplished artist, and an award-winning author and editor of children&#8217;s books.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lived in interesting places during interesting times, including divided Germany, Israel, and Cyprus during the Turkish invasion (which adventures I describe in <em>The Lullaby Illusion<\/em>), England, Belgium, and Switzerland. My\u00a0home has been <em>tranquilo<\/em> Uruguay since 2009, after several years in anything-but-<em>tranquilo<\/em> Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>My travel memoir of a twelve year period of my life\u2014<em>The Lullaby Illusion: A Journey of Awakening<\/em> has led me to a wonderful Facebook group which I recommend:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/welovememoirs\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Love Memoirs<\/a>. Of course I also recommend the book!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0939217880\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0939217880&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=peelbookscom-20\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1641\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/LI2-160high.jpg\" alt=\"LI2-160high\" width=\"110\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0939217880\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0939217880&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=peelbookscom-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Lullaby Illusion\u2013A Journey of Awakening<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The adventures and exploration continue\u2014join me online:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/susan.joyce.108\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook.png\" alt=\"facebook\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+Lullabyillusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"publisher\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-695\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/gplus.png\" alt=\"gplus\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SusanLullaby\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-693\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/twiiter.png\" alt=\"twiiter\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/susanlullaby\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-694\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/pinterest.png\" alt=\"pinterest\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Susan-Joyce\/e\/B001KCEX3W\/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1\" target=\"_blank\">My Amazon Author Page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Susan Joyce, an author, artist, and perpetual dreamer. At age 20, I left the United States to see the world. I planned a one-year adventure, but ended up living my 20s and 30s in Europe and the Middle East. As a Jill of all trades, I worked as a secretary, freelance travel writer, taught &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/the-book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lullaby Illusion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-758","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}