{"id":406,"date":"2020-02-14T13:02:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/?page_id=406"},"modified":"2020-07-19T11:57:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T11:57:42","slug":"richard-featherstone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/?page_id=406","title":{"rendered":"Richard Featherstone"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"406\" class=\"elementor elementor-406\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-50f2948 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"50f2948\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8761031\" data-id=\"8761031\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c7375c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c7375c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>I write for fun. <br \/>This is probably just as well. <br \/>By profession I&#8217;m an artisan jeweller which is marginally more lucrative than the writing but not as remunerative as, say, driving a van.\u00a0<\/p><p>However, I love creating things and I dabble in all kinds of different disciplines and media and also write a little as well.<\/p><p>My writing is an attempt to amuse but also to communicate and my hope is that the one will enable to other.\u00a0 I have written two novels and in each case I started with something that I wanted to say and then it got out of hand.\u00a0<\/p><p>In my fist book, <a href=\"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/?page_id=494\"><em>Bec&#8217;s Dragon<\/em><\/a>, I wanted to express that fact that being a child, even one not experiencing obvious harm or deprivation, can be very difficult. As adults we forget or wilfully deny this and paint childhood as a halcyon period prior to the real struggles of adult life. In reality, although a butterfly no doubt has it&#8217;s troubles, it&#8217;s getting out of the chrysalis that&#8217;s hell.\u00a0<\/p><p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/?page_id=485\"><em>Falling<\/em><\/a>, I had other things that I wanted to say; things about which we tend to react with emotion rather than thought. My hope is that it will provoke discussion and lead to a more nuanced understanding of some of the more difficult issues with which we struggle as a community.<\/p><p>I also write short blog posts on things that I&#8217;m musing about. You can read (and comment on) these by clicking the Thoughts button below.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I write for fun. This is probably just as well. By profession I&#8217;m an artisan jeweller which is marginally more lucrative than the writing but not as remunerative as, say, driving a van.\u00a0 However, I love creating things and I dabble in all kinds of different disciplines and media and also write a little as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-406","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/406\/revisions\/694"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmfeatherstone.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}