{"id":2,"date":"2009-03-24T03:59:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T07:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/kib_blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-04-25T14:18:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-25T12:18:56","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging about life in <a title=\"Wikipedia: Botswana\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botswana\">Botswana<\/a>, with some ranting about local and international news and some links to other stuff that I finds interesting: bikes, food, energy, sustainability, engineering, cars, DIY&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m Michael Knott, a <a title=\"Wikipedia: Civil Engineering\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Civil_engineering\">civil engineer<\/a> originally from <a title=\"Wikipedia: Melksham\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Melksham\">Melksham<\/a>, <a title=\"Wikipedia: Wiltshire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wiltshire\">Wiltshire<\/a>.\u00a0 I finished A-levels and went on to study at the <a title=\"Wikipedia: University of Bradford\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_bradford\">University of Bradford<\/a> in <a title=\"Wikipedia: West Yorkshire\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Yorkshire\">West Yorkshire<\/a> and, after a slightly different industrial placement, decided a career in the <a title=\"Wikipedia: United Kingdom\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_kingdom\">United Kingdom<\/a> probably wasn&#8217;t for me.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after graduation in the year 2000 I moved to Botswana, subsequently accumulating a wife, three children and a menagerie of pets.<\/p>\n<p>Our family seat is just outside <a title=\"Wikipedia: Francistown\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francistown\">Francistown<\/a>, with a town house on the outskirts of Gaborone.<\/p>\n<p>Although based in Francistown work has taken me to various other places in Botswana such as <a title=\"Wikipedia: Maun\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maun\">Maun<\/a>, Toteng, Gumare, Seronga, Moeng, Serowe and Orapa.\u00a0 Pretty much all the projects have involved a combination of civil and building engineering construction.\u00a0 The first seven years were in contracting, followed by six in consulting\/project management, a few years in contracting, and for the last three years doing contract administration on a project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.<\/p>\n<p><em>Last updated: April 2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogging about life in Botswana, with some ranting about local and international news and some links to other stuff that I finds interesting: bikes, food, energy, sustainability, engineering, cars, DIY&#8230; I&#8217;m Michael Knott, a civil engineer originally from Melksham, Wiltshire.\u00a0 I finished A-levels and went on to study at the University of Bradford in West &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":99,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5404,"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/5404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knottinbotswana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}