{"id":4,"date":"2014-05-19T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-01-07T11:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T11:29:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve reached the blog of Jonathan Ward, a 37-year-old English, tech nerd.<\/p>\n<p>In my day job, I&#8217;m a manager within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicor.com\/uk\">Epicor<\/a> Custom Solutions team; balancing technical challenges, people management and quality assurance of everything our wider team builds and delivers.<br \/>\nI live in the West Midlands with my wife and daughter, and 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/cats-update\/\">cats<\/a> (Clara, Oswin and River), at weekends you can find me either supporting my football team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wba.co.uk\">West Bromwich Albion<\/a> or playing <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/gaming-screenshots-2020\/\">computer games<\/a>. In 2023 we welcomed <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/shes-here-and-shes-beautiful\/\">Baby Ward<\/a> into our lives.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy all things Sci-Fi and Tech related, I&#8217;m a bit of a Trekkie and also love comedy. When I get the time I also enjoy travelling to the USA to see family.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s enough about me, you came here for a reason, so have a browse, and feel free to <a href=\"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/contact\/\">say hi<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, You&#8217;ve reached the blog of Jonathan Ward, a 37-year-old English, tech nerd. In my day job, I&#8217;m a manager within the Epicor Custom Solutions team; balancing technical challenges, people management and quality assurance of everything our wider team builds and delivers. I live in the West Midlands with my wife and daughter, and 3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":885,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4E7hD-4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnnyward.me.uk\/newblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}