{"id":2,"date":"2009-11-04T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T12:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-07-06T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T16:17:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-4\" title=\"Ian Ridley\" src=\"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/ianthumb-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Ridley\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-4\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ian Ridley<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have been a member of the Lib Dems since 1991 (apart from a short gap) and have campaigned in more elections than I can remember. I was Agent in Harborough Constituency in the 2001 General Election and have been elected as a Borough Councillor for Oadby St. Peter&#8217;s since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>All opinions on this blog are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of Oadby and Wigston Borough Council or the Liberal Democrats<\/p>\n<p>I have a PhD in Climate Physics from Leicester University, then worked on traffic\/pollution models and now manage and analyse school data in a local MAT.<\/p>\n<p>I am a keen amateur astronomer when time allows. I think that the TV show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwinter.com\/lurk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Babylon 5<\/a> is better than sliced bread and am perpetually re-watching the DVD box sets.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am a Liberal because I prefer progress to stagnation; because I place the happiness of the many above the privileges of the few; and because I believe that disastrous revolutions are best averted by timely reforms&#8221; &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Osborne_Morgan\">George Osborne Morgan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been a member of the Lib Dems since 1991 (apart from a short gap) and have campaigned in more elections than I can remember. I was Agent in Harborough Constituency in the 2001 General Election and have been elected as a Borough Councillor for Oadby St. Peter&#8217;s since 2019. All opinions on this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6dbnw-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ianridley.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}