{"id":2,"date":"2020-08-28T08:56:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-28T08:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2020-09-01T11:11:34","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T11:11:34","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Compiler"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About The Compiler<\/h4>\n<p>Captain Godfrey Schlemmer grew up in a small town on the Garden Route called Mossel Bay.\u00a0 Living next to the sea, it is little wonder that he developed a huge liking and respect for the sea.\u00a0 When he completed his matric year he decided to apply for the Naval Gymnasium.\u00a0 During his year in the Gymnasium he decided to join the SA Navy permanent force and so began his naval career.\u00a0 He served for a total of 36 years before retiring.\u00a0 During his career he served in a variety of posts both at sea and ashore including command posts at sea and ashore.\u00a0 He completed his career as the Deputy Director of Telecommunications at SA National Defence Force Headquarters.\u00a0 After leaving the SANDF he felt that he was too young to retire and was persuaded to use his knowledge and experience in introducing young people\u00a0 to a career at sea.\u00a0 He joined the Lawhill Maritime programme at Simon\u2019s Town School in 2002 and has been teaching Nautical Science for the past 18 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About The Compiler Captain Godfrey Schlemmer grew up in a small town on the Garden Route called Mossel Bay.\u00a0 Living next to the sea, it is little wonder that he developed a huge liking and respect for the sea.\u00a0 When he completed his matric year he decided to apply for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimesa.org\/nautical-science-grade-10\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}