{"id":68,"date":"2026-01-13T16:19:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T16:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:27:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:27:35","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/?page_id=68","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:47% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"3031\" height=\"4546\" src=\"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/authorpic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-74 size-full\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>The author was educated in Sidcup, Kent; at Exeter College, Oxford and Exeter University, but feels that when he stops learning things he knows he will be dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though he spent most of his life as a teacher, lecturer and trainer of Maths and Computing, he has had a lifelong interest in History, particularly of the 17th Century, especially the years 1640-1660, Science and Mathematics of the period and the formation of the Royal Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has pursued his studies of this period mainly through reading, but also through talks and courses, mainly with the Universities of Oxford and Exeter, where he now lives.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author was educated in Sidcup, Kent; at Exeter College, Oxford and Exeter University, but feels that when he stops learning things he knows he will be dead! Though he spent most of his life as a teacher, lecturer and trainer of Maths and Computing, he has had a lifelong interest in History, particularly of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-2","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daparsons.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}