{"id":9,"date":"2012-08-24T22:50:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T22:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skepticblogs.com\/notung\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-01-11T12:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T12:32:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I started as a music student, studying at university and music college, and playing trombone for various orchestras. While at music college, I became interested in philosophy, and eventually went on to complete an MA in Philosophy in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>An atheist for as long as I could think for myself, a skeptic, and a political lefty, my main philosophical interests include epistemology, ethics, logic and the philosophy of religion.\u00a0The purpose of <em>Notung<\/em> (named\u00a0after the name of the sword in Wagner\u2019s\u00a0<em>Der Ring des Nibelungen<\/em>)<em>\u00a0<\/em>is to concentrate on these issues, examining them as critically as possible.<\/p>\n<p>My other interests include watching football (in particular Manchester United!), computer programming, and video games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I started as a music student, studying at university and music college, and playing trombone for various orchestras. While&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/notung\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}