{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-24T17:18:19","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2014-07-24T17:44:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T06:44:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog of Martin Shields: some time lecturer in Old Testament, author, IT consultant, amateur photographer, and a few other things as well.<\/p>\n<p>Martin&#8217;s tertiary education began with a degree in Physics and Pure Mathematics. He narrowly escaped spending a year down a mine in Broken Hill looking for solar neutrinos by studying Theology, completing a Masters Honours degree on Genesis 1\u20133 and then his PhD on Qohelet (Ecclesiastes).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shields-up&#8221; (a reference, if you&#8217;ve missed it, to <a title=\"Warp Formula\" href=\"http:\/\/www.calormen.com\/Star_Trek\/FAQs\/warp_formulae.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Star Trek<\/a> and other Sci-Fi stories) is a blog designed so I can deposit thoughts and ideas of varying significance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12   aligncenter\" title=\"farmpanorama\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/farmpanorama.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"69\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2008\/09\/farmpanorama.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/wp-content\/uploaddir\/2008\/09\/farmpanorama-300x46.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the blog of Martin Shields: some time lecturer in Old Testament, author, IT consultant, amateur photographer, and a few other things as well. Martin&#8217;s tertiary education began with a degree in Physics and Pure Mathematics. He narrowly escaped spending a year down a mine in Broken Hill looking for solar neutrinos by studying&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/95"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shields-online.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}