{"id":2,"date":"2016-11-09T06:42:18","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T06:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-04T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:23:14","slug":"about-jon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2261 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019-300x120.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019-768x307.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/jon-arthur-selection-2019-800x320.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Welcome to my little corner of the web!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My name&#8217;s Jon and I&#8217;m an angling coach, film maker and a consultant for <strong>Matrix<\/strong> and <strong>Sonubaits<\/strong>. I was also a former Group Editor of <strong>Match Fishing<\/strong> and <strong>Pole Fishing<\/strong> magazines. I&#8217;ve always wanted to encourage and inspire others to catch more fish and enjoy the magic of angling!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a 3x <strong>UK Champion<\/strong>, 4x <strong>FishOMania<\/strong> finalist and 3x <strong>RiverFest<\/strong> finalist and regularly compete in top-flight competitions. It&#8217;s definitely not all about matches for me, though. I get equal satisfaction having a quick hour with minimal tackle. Whether it&#8217;s canals, lakes or rivers, I love them all!<\/p>\n<p>I share the magic of fishing on my <strong>Jon Arthur Angling YouTube Channel<\/strong> \u2013 which has over 30,000 subscribers!<\/p>\n<p>As a qualified <strong>Level 2 Angling Coach<\/strong> I also provide fun and friendly\u00a0<strong>Coaching Days &amp; Fishing Experiences<\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0anglers of all ages and abilities.<\/p>\n<p>Tight lines and thanks for visiting my website!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my little corner of the web! My name&#8217;s Jon and I&#8217;m an angling coach, film maker and a consultant for Matrix and Sonubaits. I was also a former Group Editor of Match&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/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-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7514,"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/7514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jonarthur.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}