{"id":38,"date":"2015-06-24T10:27:35","date_gmt":"2015-06-24T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2023-05-19T02:49:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T01:49:18","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=38","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?attachment_id=83\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-83\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-83 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/freelancegids-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a>I am an entrepreneur and writer, I live in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. After university, I started working as a Business Consultant and soon found myself writing my first book about starting a business as a freelancer. Because I wanted to be a consultant with practical experience, I started my own part-time business, a legal publishing company. The business went well, and I sold it in 1998 to Kluwer International Publishers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?attachment_id=109\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-109\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-109 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/wmnr1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a>During the next three years, I worked as the main editor and publisher of Watersport Magazine, the largest boating magazine in the Netherlands with a circulation of over 120.000 copies. I continued working in this market with my own publishing company and founded the IJsselmeer Krant, Watersport in Bedrijf, and the Watersport Krant. The latter was the most successful, with a controlled circulation of 250.000 copies. After publishing these titles for over eight years, I sold them to NDC Media Group.<\/p>\n<p>After selling the titles, I focused more on writing. I worked on several projects as the editor and writer. You can find them on the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=42\">timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, I am working on several writing projects. You can read about them on the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=40\">current projects<\/a>. All details about my career can be found on the page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=42\">timeline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an entrepreneur and writer, I live in Heerenveen, the Netherlands. After university, I started working as a Business Consultant and soon found myself writing my first book about starting a business as a freelancer. Because I wanted to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/?page_id=38\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gerritbosman.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}