{"id":77,"date":"2023-04-30T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2023-05-23T09:34:29","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T13:34:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_5856-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Getting ready for a shoot at Maletsunyane Falls at Semongkong, Lesotho. (<em>credit: Helen Weaver<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>After a 40-year career as a journalist, photographer, editor, public relations practitioner and marketing strategist, I am free now to pursue my passions of photography (Pictures), travel (Places) and food (Plates). This new personal blog will be where I capture my new adventures and revisit some of my old ones.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"379\" src=\"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Linda-Francis-Lion-Sands.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Linda-Francis-Lion-Sands.jpg 630w, https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Linda-Francis-Lion-Sands-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Linda and me in 2010 during a phenomenal visit to Lion Sands private game reserve in Mpumalanga, South Africa.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>My partner in many of these adventures, as she has been in my life itself for nearly 25 years, is my wife, Linda Moran. I can make some claim to have ignited her passion for travel and we sure have visited a few corners of the world together, with many more to come, and have enjoyed phenomenal meals along the way. Her contributions here will be as regular as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a 40-year career as a journalist, photographer, editor, public relations practitioner and marketing strategist, I am free now to pursue my passions of photography&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-77","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/77\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francis-moran.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}