{"id":1,"date":"2020-06-25T11:46:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2020-06-30T11:27:44","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T11:27:44","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/2020\/06\/25\/hello-world\/","title":{"rendered":"About the author: Nick Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nick Smith is a Swansea-based freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, books and newspapers over the past three decades. Formerly editor of monthly magazines <em>BBC Focus<\/em> and <em>Geographical<\/em>, he has won a dozen journalism awards, including Magazine Editor of the Year. He is also a frequent contributor to Swansea\u2019s <em>Bay<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick has a regular column in <em>Outdoor Photography<\/em> magazine and is author of six books, including the acclaimed <em>Travels in the World of Books<\/em>, described by Alexander McCall Smith as \u2018a triumph\u2019. His most recent book is <em>A Camera in My Luggage<\/em>, published in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Educated at Olchfa Comprehensive School Swansea and Balliol College Oxford, he is also a fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society in London and the Explorers Club in New York. His adventures have taken him to more than a hundred countries, as well as the North Pole and Antarctica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nick\u2019s interests include playing the guitar and he was a founder member of Swansea\u2019s legendary 1980s pop band No Flags Etc, that still features on CD compilations of the history of Welsh music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Smith is a Swansea-based freelance writer and photographer whose work has appeared in hundreds of magazines, books and newspapers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lighthouse.nicksmithphoto.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}