{"id":10916,"date":"2013-10-29T07:31:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?page_id=10916"},"modified":"2013-10-29T07:31:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T20:31:42","slug":"rob-rimmer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/rob-rimmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Rimmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10917\" alt=\"Rob Rimmer\" src=\"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Rob-R-Bio-Pic.bmp\" \/>I\u2019m a freelance writer, editor and journalist, balancing my work as a community organiser for Brisbane-based nonprofit organisation Bridging The Divide Inc. with multiple secret identities such as father-of-two, part-time student and truck driver.<\/p>\n<p>My focus as a contributor to No Fibs is on bridging the urban-rural news and media divide at grassroots level, beginning with my beloved home state of Queensland.<\/p>\n<p>Issues raised by the coal seam gas industry cast a harsh 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century light on that persistent Australian challenge: the \u2018tyranny of distance\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, a new industry transforms the rural landscape with enduring national implications &#8211; yet eye-witnesses are few, because their direct experiences of this industry\u2019s impacts occur in places so remote many Australians have never heard of them, much less visited.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m a freelance writer, editor and journalist, balancing my work as a community organiser for Brisbane-based nonprofit organisation Bridging The Divide Inc. with multiple secret identities such as father-of-two, part-time student and truck driver. My focus as a contributor to No Fibs is on bridging the urban-rural news and media divide at grassroots level, beginning [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3t0mw-2Q4","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}