{"id":8,"date":"2012-07-29T16:35:47","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T13:23:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Ben Jeapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ben01.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"209\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Well, maybe the photo isn&#8217;t that representative nowadays. So you&#8217;ll just have to take my word&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A <a title=\"Biography\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/about\/biography\/\">brief biography<\/a> is available, as is a <a title=\"A prehistory of the Jeapes\u2019\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/about\/family-history\/\">prehistory of the Jeapes family<\/a>\u00a0as far as he knows it. Alternatively, admire the cutey he once was. If you really have the time and inclination, there&#8217;s a link to his blog at the top of this page. Otherwise &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nationality:<\/strong> British<\/li>\n<li><strong>Age:<\/strong> 21 + VAT<\/li>\n<li><strong>Height:<\/strong> 6&#8217;5&#8243;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hair:<\/strong> variously described as brown, light brown, blond, dishwater blond (whatever that means)<\/li>\n<li>Clean shaven<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eyes:<\/strong> Brown,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333; font-style: normal; line-height: 24px;\">Glasses<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Married<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I once met someone at a Con who pictured me as short, dark haired and bearded. Don&#8217;t ask me why, except that perhaps it&#8217;s because you get a lot of short, dark(ish\/greying) haired and bearded people at Cons. You tend to meet their bellies before anything else.<\/p>\n<h2>Interviews<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxford.anglican.org\/god-life-author-ben-jeapes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">God in the life of author Ben Jeapes<\/a>: interview by the Oxford Diocese <em>Door<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scififantasynetwork.com\/ben-jeapes-creator-of-worlds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Jeapes \u2013 Creator Of Worlds<\/a>, on scififantasynetwork.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/morethanwriters.blogspot.co.uk\/2016\/03\/author-showcase-ben-jeapes-interviewed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More than Writers<\/a>: the blog of the Association of Christian Writers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/profile\/view\/benjeapes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smashwords<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Educated at:<\/strong> Hampton Dene Primary School, Hereford; Little Chalfont Primary School; Lorraine Primary School, Camberley; Dumpton Prep School (I know, I know &#8230;); Sherborne School; Warwick University.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 214px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/benandfriend.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"204\" height=\"209\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I&#8217;m the one in the blue coat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lives\/has lived in:<\/strong> Far too many places.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Works\/has worked for:<\/strong> A total of seven companies so far, three of which no longer exist. Ben has broken three of his former employers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Favourite depressives:<\/strong>\u00a0Eeyore, Marvin, Puddleglum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tattoos:<\/strong> Secret brotherhood initiation sigil below my right shoulder blade. Probably shouldn&#8217;t have told you that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dislikes:<\/strong>\u00a0Pettiness; corporatism masking incompetence; hype; letting dogma or convenience dictate the facts; queues; incompetence; being let down; rudeness; London; people who say what they need to say more than once; cheapskates; sales people who call me by my first name; reality TV and all such celebrations of mediocrity in the name of entertainment &#8230; I could go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A brief biography is available, as is a prehistory of the Jeapes family\u00a0as far as he knows it. Alternatively, admire the cutey he once was. If you really have the time and inclination, there&#8217;s a link to his blog at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3036,"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/3036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benjeapes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}