{"id":13,"date":"2015-11-02T03:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T03:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2018-11-06T02:14:35","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T02:14:35","slug":"author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/?page_id=13","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BWA-headshot-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14\" src=\"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BWA-headshot-1-273x300.jpg\" alt=\"BWA headshot 1\" width=\"166\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BWA-headshot-1-273x300.jpg 273w, https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BWA-headshot-1-932x1024.jpg 932w, https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/BWA-headshot-1.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 166px) 100vw, 166px\" \/><\/a>Bruce Ware Allen was born in New Jersey,\u00a0 the son of a naval officer\/shipping executive.\u00a0 He was raised and educated in America, the Netherlands, and Italy.\u00a0 He studied Classics in college and worked a variety of jobs from factory to computer security. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife <a href=\"http:\/\/aperfumeblog.com\/\">Blacknall Allen<\/a>, their daughter, and a stray cat who talked her way into the household.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that genetics influences outcome, he comes to this trade honestly.\u00a0 He is g-g-nephew of classicists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warefamilies.org\/2011\/11\/joseph-henry-allen-1820-1898\/\">Joseph Henry Allen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Francis_Allen\">William Francis Allen<\/a>. He is also a cousin to naval historian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/identities\/lccn-n89621483\/\">Gardner Weld Allen <\/a>and historical fiction writer <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_Ware\">William Ware<\/a>, author of Zenobia and other forgotten best-sellers.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tiber: Eternal River of Rome<\/em> is BWA&#8217;s second book, following his 2015 history, <em>The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Ware Allen was born in New Jersey,\u00a0 the son of a naval officer\/shipping executive.\u00a0 He was raised and educated in America, the Netherlands, and Italy.\u00a0 He studied Classics in college and worked a variety of jobs from factory to computer security. He currently lives in Connecticut with his wife Blacknall Allen, their daughter, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/?page_id=13\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ABOUT<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucewareallen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}