{"id":249,"date":"2020-12-03T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T07:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/?p=249"},"modified":"2020-12-04T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T00:30:03","slug":"ben-andrews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/2020\/12\/03\/ben-andrews\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Andrews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;-54px||||false|false&#8221; sticky_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_image src=&#8221;https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/BenAndrews-Workspace-scaled.jpeg&#8221; title_text=&#8221;BenAndrews &#8211; Workspace&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.7.4&#8243; _module_preset=&#8221;default&#8221;]<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben Andrews grew up in Windsor, Ontario, eventually pursuing a bachelors in Kinesiology at the University of Windsor. After deciding to pivot his career aspirations towards journalism, he completed a master\u2019s degree in political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax before packing his things into a tiny Honda Fit and driving to Ottawa with his partner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben was first drawn to journalism during a research assistantship in which he spent hours cataloguing and summarizing archived newspaper articles. He hopes that one day an underpaid overworked research assistant will stumble across his byline for a project on politics, conflict or the environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben has worked in clinics, bars and in Northern Ontario planting trees. He is a runner, reader and Canadian football fan.<\/span><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Andrews grew up in Windsor, Ontario, eventually pursuing a bachelors in Kinesiology at the University of Windsor. After deciding to pivot his career aspirations towards journalism, he completed a master\u2019s degree in political science at Dalhousie University in Halifax before packing his things into a tiny Honda Fit and driving to Ottawa with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/noveltimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}