{"id":296,"date":"2024-01-30T12:17:48","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T12:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/?page_id=296"},"modified":"2026-01-20T23:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T04:21:54","slug":"my-bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/?page_id=296","title":{"rendered":"My Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"296\" class=\"elementor elementor-296\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-35ae29f e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"35ae29f\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19e68f2 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"19e68f2\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fbffee elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"0fbffee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"782\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Westlyn-jazz.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-image-413\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Westlyn-jazz.jpg 782w, https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Westlyn-jazz-300x145.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Westlyn-jazz-768x372.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c9d83dc e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c9d83dc\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c8453f5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c8453f5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"imgtext\"><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul class=\"imgtext\"><li>Born\u00a0<strong>May 31st 1956<\/strong><\/li><li>Graduated in 1979 with a <strong>Bachelor of Music Education<\/strong> from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music<\/li><li>Moved to Richmond VA soon thereafter and started teaching private students<\/li><li>Started playing lots of solo gigs, drawing heavily from singer\/songwriter repertoire and working as much as five nights a week.<\/li><li>Also played in a bunch of short-lived &#8220;garage bands&#8221;. (Not a very pleasent experience.)<\/li><li>In 1998, founded\u00a0<strong>Full Moon Productions<\/strong>, a recording studio that grew into\u00a0<strong>ReaLife Multimedia LLC<\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-83c68a7 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"83c68a7\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1bd4829 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1bd4829\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a631087 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a631087\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" src=\"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GoFigure-300x297.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium wp-image-414\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GoFigure-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GoFigure-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/GoFigure.jpg 355w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7f0abf8 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"7f0abf8\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79fd354 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"79fd354\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"imgtext\"><li style=\"list-style-type: none;\"><ul class=\"imgtext\"><li><strong><em>Go Figure<\/em><\/strong>, my 1st album, was released at the end of 1999<\/li><li>Served as president of \u00a0<strong>VOCAL<\/strong> (Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricists)\u00a0 for four years<\/li><li>In 2013, ran the\u00a0<strong>Richmond Marathon<\/strong>.<\/li><li>That same year, I composed the soundtrack to<strong>\u00a0Breathing Life into the Chesapeake: Of Oysters, Boats and Men<\/strong>\u00a0and expanded it into a seven movement work for guitar and string quartet.<\/li><li>Presently, I&#8217;m enjoying the Pacific Northwest, having moved to <strong>Eugene, OR<\/strong> in May of 2025.<\/li><li>I don&#8217;t know that you need to know more than that.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born\u00a0May 31st 1956 Graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Music Education from Shenandoah Conservatory of Music Moved to Richmond VA soon thereafter and started teaching private students Started playing lots of solo gigs, drawing heavily from singer\/songwriter repertoire and working as much as five nights a week. Also played in a bunch of short-lived &#8220;garage bands&#8221;. (Not a very pleasent experience.) In 1998, founded\u00a0Full Moon Productions, a recording studio that grew into\u00a0ReaLife Multimedia LLC Go Figure, my 1st album, was released at the end of 1999 Served as president of \u00a0VOCAL (Virginia Organization of Composers and Lyricists)\u00a0 for four years In 2013, ran the\u00a0Richmond Marathon. That same year, I composed the soundtrack to\u00a0Breathing Life into the Chesapeake: Of Oysters, Boats and Men\u00a0and expanded it into a seven movement work for guitar and string quartet. Presently, I&#8217;m enjoying the Pacific Northwest, having moved to Eugene, OR in May of 2025. I don&#8217;t know that you need to know more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":756,"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimwestlyn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}