{"id":8695,"date":"2013-08-21T14:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T04:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nofibs.com.au\/?page_id=8695"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:24:37","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T06:24:37","slug":"gregory-todd","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/gregory-todd\/","title":{"rendered":"Gregory Todd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8696\" alt=\"profile\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nofibs.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/profile.jpg?resize=300%2C252\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My family moved from New Zealand\u2019s green and pleasant hills to tropical\u00a0 Cairns in 1979.\u00a0 I joined the RAAF as a member of 115 Pilot\u2019s Course in February of 1981, and left in 93 after being posted to Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and finally Sydney.\u00a0 After leaving the Air Force I set up a business teaching people to use computers, and now teach digital filmmaking to adults in Sydney\u2019s Western suburbs.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been embedded in the Macquarie electorate for just short of 30 years, and I nearly feel like a local.\u00a0 I met my wife here, and both of our boys were born in the old Hawkesbury hospital.<\/p>\n<p>We have a small farm on the edge of the Blue Mountains national park that we share with two cats, a dog, 8 chooks, and my wife\u2019s two horses.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try and bring you a feel for what\u2019s being said on the ground here in Sydney\u2019s outer northwest.\u00a0 I won\u2019t necessarily agree with it, but I\u2019ll endeavour to bring it to you free from spin.<\/p>\n<p>If I needed a motto, I couldn\u2019t go past Aaron Sorkin\u2019s &#8220;Nothing is as important to democracy as a well informed electorate\u201d.<\/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>My family moved from New Zealand\u2019s green and pleasant hills to tropical\u00a0 Cairns in 1979.\u00a0 I joined the RAAF as a member of 115 Pilot\u2019s Course in February of 1981, and left in 93 after being posted to Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide and finally Sydney.\u00a0 After leaving the Air Force I set up a business teaching [&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":2,"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-2gf","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8695"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}