{"id":13,"date":"2020-02-05T23:07:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2024-04-30T01:31:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T01:31:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re here, you probably already know a bit about me. I started making video essays on the far-right and related topics after the Christchurch shooting in 2019. That led to the book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.co.nz\/9781775542308\/fear\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.harpercollins.co.nz\/9781775542308\/fear\/\">Fear: New Zealand&#8217;s Hosile Underworld of Extremists<\/a>. and these days I write the newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feijoadispatch.nz\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/www.feijoadispatch.nz\">Feijoa Dispatch<\/a>. I also do some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.occupychristchurch.nz\">oral history work<\/a>. I have been involved in various forms of activism since I was in my teens and have found writing about disinformation and extremism is the niche I fit in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"819\" src=\"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-83\" srcset=\"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-1024x819.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-2048x1638.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/DSC_0127-1200x960.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re here, you probably already know a bit about me. I started making video essays on the far-right and related topics after the Christchurch shooting in 2019. That led to the book Fear: New Zealand&#8217;s Hosile Underworld of Extremists. and these days I write the newsletter Feijoa Dispatch. I also do some oral history &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byron.geek.nz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}