{"id":9,"date":"2019-11-05T05:59:39","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2020-06-25T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T16:34:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-1152x2048.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-1568x2788.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Ray-Profile-scaled.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><figcaption>Highland Woodworking, my first turning class 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p> I&#8217;m Ray Deftereos &#8211; a hand tool evangelist from South Africa. over the past two years I&#8217;ve been on a hand tool journey, but found that I was really struggling to find good book recommendations. This podcast is my attempt to rectify that problem. I&#8217;ve been through close on a hundred books &#8211; and I&#8217;ll be reviewing the best of them here, so you have somewhere to start as you progress with hand tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in my tool recommendations here is a video tour of my shop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tour of my workshop\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eSicq8DC6Os?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m Ray Deftereos &#8211; a hand tool evangelist from South Africa. over the past two years I&#8217;ve been on a hand tool journey, but found that I was really struggling to find good book recommendations. This podcast is my attempt to rectify that problem. I&#8217;ve been through close on a hundred books &#8211; and I&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handtoolbookreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}