{"id":4,"date":"2013-08-23T22:12:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T22:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2022-09-23T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T11:45:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/?page_id=4","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=blacktopmediauk\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>BlackTopMedia is a petrol head doing what he loves: Riding, driving, writing and filming motorcycles and cars for you.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m the founder, <strong>Mark Turner<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackTopMediaUK\">@Blacktopmediauk.<\/a> I grew up oily, holding a spanner for my dad. Now I&#8217;m a freelance auto journalist who loves motorcycles and old-school cars. I&#8217;ve worked in the automotive sector most of my life in one form or another and I&#8217;ve done everything from selling cars to fixing them to working with manufacturers on engineering projects to riding, driving, photographing and writing about them.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always looking for new opportunities and if you want to be involved or have something you think I would like to be involved with, drop me a line.<\/p>\n<p>In my first year at secondary School, I was sitting in English class. We had a truly inspirational teacher called Wally Gomes who had an MK1 Escort Lotus. Wally sparked something inside me and I\u2019ve been writing ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Please accept my apologies for not updating this site enough. My work tends to go out on a variety of titles and platforms so I rarely get around to updating my own site, you know how it is. I will try to add content here from time to time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlackTopMedia is a petrol head doing what he loves: Riding, driving, writing and filming motorcycles and cars for you. I&#8217;m<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/?page_id=4\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Us<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":925,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3Qro7-4","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4256,"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/4256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacktopmedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}