{"id":288,"date":"2023-09-09T20:54:40","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2023-09-09T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T01:04:58","slug":"trustee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"Trustee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-x-large-font-size\">John Janiga, Trustee<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"142\" height=\"202\" src=\"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-289\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\">I originally started out in the Warrendale section of Detroit.&nbsp; St Christopher was the church\/school I attended with Mom, Dad and a sister.&nbsp; In 1956 we moved to Garden City where I finished up schooling in the public schools.&nbsp; When I got married in 1969, my wife and I eventually bought a home in Dearborn.&nbsp; Two daughters later, and one on the way, we moved to Dearborn Heights near St. Sabina church\/school.&nbsp; After the divorce, I ended up in Redford and then transplanted myself to Brownstown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\">My heritage is 100% Polish. My Mom and Dad always followed the Polish traditions at home, including me having to take accordion lessons.&nbsp; The hours and years I had to practice was all due to Myron Floren on the Lawrence Welk show.&nbsp; I did manage to persuade my dad to get me a drum set and then a guitar, but the accordion was always with me.&nbsp; Music was so much a part of me that I decided to make it a career after I left my first profession, mortuary science.&nbsp; I enrolled in music education at Wayne State, got my degree and then landed a job in the Woodhaven-Brownstown school district.&nbsp; I later enrolled at Eastern University and obtained a master\u2019s degree.&nbsp; I retired from teaching in 2000 but I never stopping playing jobs.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\" style=\"font-size:18px\">As I look over the past 60 years as a musician, I am very grateful for all the talented musicians and bands that I have worked&nbsp;with during my life.&nbsp; I will continue to work as an accordionist until I can no longer squeeze the box.&nbsp; I have not played my last polka, yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Janiga, Trustee I originally started out in the Warrendale section of Detroit.&nbsp; St Christopher was the church\/school I attended with Mom, Dad and a sister.&nbsp; In 1956 we moved to Garden City where I finished up schooling in the public schools.&nbsp; When I got married in 1969, my wife and I eventually bought a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/polkaboosterclubamerica.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}