{"id":1254,"date":"2015-08-17T14:12:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2019-06-13T18:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T18:00:56","slug":"robert-bittlestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/2015\/08\/17\/robert-bittlestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Bittlestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RobertBittlestone.jpg\" alt=\"RobertBittlestone\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1255\" width=\"257\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RobertBittlestone.jpg 257w, https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/RobertBittlestone-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/>I&#8217;ve just had the sad task of adding <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.odysseus-unbound.org\/about\/robert-bittlestone\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an obituary<\/a> to the website of one of my clients. I first met Robert in 2003 when I designed the website for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metapraxis.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metapraxis<\/a>, the company he founded. In 2005 he approached me again to design a website for a book that he had written developing a new theory on the location of Homer&#8217;s Ithaca &#8211; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseus-unbound.org\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Odysseus Unbound<\/a>. Although I didn&#8217;t know him well, I liked him from the first time we met. He was a man of boundless energy and a true inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just had the sad task of adding an obituary to the website of one of my clients. I first met Robert in 2003 when I designed the website for Metapraxis, the company he founded. In 2005 he approached me again to design a website for a book that he had written developing a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reeddesign.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}