{"id":5,"date":"2011-09-15T21:53:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2011-09-15T21:53:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-15T21:53:27","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=622015844574691\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/?page_id=5\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"true\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p>I have been taking photos most of my life, the last 23 professionally.<\/p>\n<p>I started as a trainee on the Reading Chronicle (Berkshire, UK) in May 1988 and qualified as a senior photographer exactly two years later, after completing the NCTJ Press Photography course at Stradbrooke College, Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>I was made Deputy Chief Photographer at the Reading Chronicle in 1992 and Chief Photographer in 1995.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, I joined the Shropshire Star (Telford, UK) as Deputy Chief Photographer. before being appointed as Chief Photographer in 2001. I still hold this position today.<\/p>\n<p>This is my blog on anything relating to the photography I do &#8211; maybe just a few random thoughts, or maybe a few hints and tips to improve your photography.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re reading this, do drop me a line and let me know you&#8217;re out there, otherwise I&#8217;m going to feel particularly sad being the only one reading my thoughts \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been taking photos most of my life, the last 23 professionally. I started as a trainee on the Reading Chronicle (Berkshire, UK) in May 1988 and qualified as a senior photographer exactly two years later, after completing the NCTJ Press Photography course at Stradbrooke College, Sheffield. I was made Deputy Chief Photographer at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobgreaves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}