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Curriculum Vitae<\/pre>\n
CV \/ Resume<\/h2>\n
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To communicate well, and bring perspective to ideas.<\/i><\/p>\n
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I am a communicator and strategist who\u2019s helped organisations tell their stories for more than 15 years. My job titles have included community manager, technology evangelist, editor, content strategist, and \u201chead of content.\u201d<\/p>\n
In working for web startups and software companies, higher- education, and design firms, I\u2019ve found myself consistently helping people to better listen to their communities through research, outreach, and events.<\/p>\n
I studied words and how people use them at university \u2013 focusing on psycholinguistics. Now I help large, higher-education institutions and mental-health platforms to communicate well through content strategy.<\/p>\n
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Work<\/h2>\n
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Marketing Director at Cornell University<\/h3>\n
January 2024 \u2013 Now, Ithaca, New York (remote)<\/em><\/p>\n
I lead marketing efforts at Cornell\u2019s ILR School. I work closely with a fantastic team to understand the needs of our communities. I take a community-lead approach to marketing, making sure we are present and good members of our various networks.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Assistant director, content strategy at Cornell University<\/h3>\n
September 2018 \u2013 January 2024, Ithaca, New York<\/em><\/p>\n
I work with leaders and stakeholders across Cornell University\u2019s ILR School to understand and craft their messages. I help build strategies for creating and managing content that\u2019s designed for our audiences and on purpose.<\/p>\n
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UX \/ Content-Strategy Consultant<\/h3>\n
July 2020 – February 2024 (3 years 8 months), Remote<\/em><\/p>\n
Stoic is a global mental-health app on the Apple\/iPhone and Google\/Android platforms designed to help people better understand and directly change how they experience their mind and emotions. I have helped Stoic build new user experiences for mental and emotional wellness. I review their content, making sure it\u2019s consistent and well-crafted for their users. I create new mental-health exercise content based on Stoic philosophy: guided meditations, mindful walks, guided journal prompts.<\/p>\n
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Zach helped Stoic make a leap from a small app to a product that thousands of people use every day.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
He helped us build a guided audio meditations designed for walks. Zach proposed the initial idea and helped on all stages of building this feature, from preparing and testing UX mocks to writing and recording actual content.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
Zach also reworked the language used in the product. Made it consistent, clear, and easy to understand.<\/p>\n
Maciej Lobodzinski, Founder Stoic<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Head of content and communities at Zengenti<\/h3>\n
September 2014 \u2013 September 2018 (4 years), Shropshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
Zengenti<\/a> is a web software house that happens to have two digital agencies in its wings. It\u2019s flagship \u2013 Contensis \u2013 is an enterprise-level content management system (CMS). It\u2019s used by many leading organisations, and is popular with UK-based universities and local authorities. My job description is quite broad \u2013 I work with most teams within the company to build our message and keep our prose well-crafted. I also worked with clients on content strategy through workshops and consultation.<\/p>\n
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\u201cZach\u2019s rich experience in our industry, and his passion for getting things right, has brought tremendous value to Zengenti and our clients.
When Zach stands up in front of an audience, it\u2019s like he\u2019s always been there. He gets people engaged in ideas he is passionate about and he brings us along with him.
I have learnt a lot from Zach, particularly around language \u2013 I now feel even more uncomfortable around jargon.
He\u2019s a deep thinker, and I value his input on many areas including sales, marketing, and community development.\u201d
Jon Lewis<\/strong>
Chief Commercial Officer, Zengenti<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Content strategist for Fluent<\/h3>\n
June 2013 \u2013 September 2014 (1 year, 4 months) Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
I was Fluent\u2019s<\/a> in-house content strategist. Fluent designs and builds websites for SMEs and institutions such as the University of Cambridge. My job is to craft the message of websites \u2013 working closely with clients to understand their perspective, and make sure they have a clear and consistent voice. The work includes all aspects of content strategy from microcopy (details matter) to taxonomies and writing.<\/p>\n
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\u201cZach and I worked together at Fluent on web projects for about a year. He\u2019s friendly, willing to get stuck in and thoughtful in the way he approaches everything he does. A great addition to any team \u2013 and he\u2019ll make you a spoon with an axe!?”
Andrew Parker<\/strong>
Design Director, Fluent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Community manager for ScraperWiki<\/h3>\n
February 2013 \u2013 June 2013 (5 months) Liverpool, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
Scraperwiki hired me to manage their community of journalists and developers. In my time there, I launched newsletters, spoke at events and bullied our developers into getting analytics coming in from our various tools. A lot of the work was in creating ways Scraperwiki could hear from their users and connect them through rapidly evolving plans from the company itself.<\/p>\n
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\u201cZach is a skilled communicator who has a deep understanding of data and how it is used in the world. He can handle all aspects of managing a community in the Internet Age \u2013 from social media and newsletters through to supporting customers individually. He\u2019s particularly interested in learning general conclusions from behaviour of the community, and making sure this feedback improves the product. And in coffee!\u201d
Francis Irving<\/strong>
CEO, Scraperwiki<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Digital community manager for Emerald Group Publishing<\/h3>\n
June 2012 \u2013 February 2013 (9 months) Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
I helped Emerald prepare for its first digital community offerings, looked after interns, and built up a working group within the company to support their online efforts. This involved pitching the very idea of a digital community to sceptical directors, and liaising with academics to support Emerald\u2019s first community project, which has since been launched at networkedscholar.com. I worked like a kind of internal consultant on many projects across divisions as part of the Digital team.<\/p>\n
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Community manager for Kasabi<\/h3>\n
January 2011 \u2013 June 2012 (18 months) Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
Kasabi was a data marketplace startup project at Talis, and I had the privilege of helping to plan and launch the beta as their community manager. The role was a mixture of strategy and groundwork, which included organising (and speaking at) events, writing marketing materials, conducting surveys, and setting up analytics.<\/p>\n
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\u201cZach is really passionate about connecting with the community, he successfully built up a network of connections first as the editor of Nodalities magazine and later as community manager for Kasabi. He is enthusiastic and keen to learn new skills.\u201d
Leigh Dodds<\/strong>
CTO, Kasabi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Editor of Nodalities Magazine and platform evangelist at Talis<\/h3>\n
April 2008 \u2013 December 2010 (2 years, 10 months) Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n
Talis built a software platform for semantic web technologies. My job was to tell Talis\u2019 story and that of the Semantic Web to interested people \u2014 and to help people who might become interested to pay attention.<\/p>\n
As editor of the Magazine of the Semantic Web, Nodalities<\/a>, I helped people to tell their own stories to promote the industry, and put the content together. Sometimes, the stories were best told in person, so I recorded and edited podcasts alongside the magazine. I also spoke at industry events, met hundreds of interesting people, and did some writing for ReadWriteWeb and other web publications.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI worked closely with Zach throughout his career at Talis. He has a valuable talent to turn abstract ideas and processes into understandable information. He possesses a curious mind and a fascinating combination of cultural insight and an interest in new technologies. Zach is always willing to share his knowledge and his energy and positive attitude makes it great to work with him for partners and colleagues alike. I would thoroughly recommend Zach and would be more than pleased to work with him again in the future.\u201d
Ian Davis<\/strong>
CTO, Talis<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Education<\/h2>\n
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Education<\/h2>\n
BA (hons): English Language and Communication<\/h3>\n
King\u2019s College London Sep 2003 \u2013 Jul 2006<\/em><\/p>\n
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Covering a wide range of perspectives and methods to understand human communication, the research-intensive degree focused on applied linguistics. King\u2019s prides itself in its rigour and focus on research methods. Taught modules on my programme included psycholinguistics and sociological linguistics, as well as the <\/span><\/p>\n
formation and description of language through grammar and evolution. <\/span><\/p>\n
For my undergraduate dissertation, I focused on psycholinguistics \u2013 specifically semantics. As part of the study, I used discourse analysis to understand metaphor and propositional communication from elicited texts. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Other Experience<\/h2>\n
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Co-founder at Shropgeek<\/h3>\n
Shropgeek started in 2008 on Twitter with a handful of web-based specialists trying to find anything to do in the \u2018Shire. Two friends and I decided to meet up regularly to chat about the web. This spiralled into a full-day web conference with gifted speakers from around the world sharing their experience and expertise with geeks in the UK\u2019s west midlands. I hosted the conferences, acting as compere. Although I no longer live in Shropshire, I keep in touch. And, geeks still get together monthly after the better part of a decade to talk about the web in the \u2018Shire.<\/p>\n
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Group administrator for the largest green-woodworking community<\/h3>\n
I\u2019m one of a handful of admins for the Facebook group Spoon Carving, Green Woodworking, and Sloyd<\/a>. With more than 20,000 members<\/strong>, we\u2019re fairly sure this is the biggest digital gathering of people interested in green woodworking.<\/p>\n
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Interests<\/h2>\n
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A quick tag-cloud of my blog would probably show that my interests centre around forestry and woodworking, coffee, and language. I like sharing ideas, and getting others to do so too, so a friend and I started the Shropgeek gathering, which has become an annual conference.<\/p>\n
Apart from the interests I often write about, I\u2019m also captivated with the countryside, and love little more than taking my dog for a long walk with an audiobook. I carve spoons out of green wood, and attempt to make furniture that doesn\u2019t fall apart. I also enjoy photography, and have an active photostream on flickr.com\/beauvais<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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Curriculum Vitae CV \/ ResumeTo communicate well, and bring perspective to ideas.I am a communicator and strategist who\u2019s helped organisations tell their stories for more than 15 years. My job titles have included community manager, technology evangelist, editor, content strategist, and \u201chead of content.\u201d In working for web startups and software companies, higher- education, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11930,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"
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To communicate well, and bring perspective to ideas.
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I am a communicator and strategist who's helped organisations tell their stories for more than 13 years. My job titles have included community manager, technology evangelist, editor, and \u201chead of content.\u201d<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve worked for web startups and software companies, and in academic publishing and higher education. I studied words and how people use them at university. Now I help large, higher-education institutions communicate well through content strategy.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\tConnect on LinkedIn\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Zach\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
Work<\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t\t
Assistant director, content strategy at Cornell University<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
September 2018 \u2013 Now, Ithaca, New York<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Cornell\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t
I work with leaders and stakeholders across Cornell University\u2019s ILR School to understand and craft their messages. I help build strategies for creating and managing content that\u2019s designed for our audiences and on purpose.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t
Head of content and communities at Zengenti<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
September 2014 \u2013 September 2018 (4 years), Shropshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
Zengenti<\/a> is a web software house that happens to have two digital agencies in its wings. It\u2019s flagship \u2013 Contensis \u2013 is an enterprise-level content management system (CMS). It\u2019s used by many leading organisations, and is popular with UK-based universities and local authorities. My job description is quite broad \u2013 I work with most teams within the company to build our message and keep our prose well-crafted. I also work with clients on content strategy through workshops and consultation.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"0-1\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \u201cZach\u2019s rich experience in our industry, and his passion for getting things right, has brought tremendous value to Zengenti and our clients.\n    When Zach stands up in front of an audience, it\u2019s like he\u2019s always been there. He gets people engaged in ideas he is passionate about and he brings us along with him.\n    I have learnt a lot from Zach, particularly around language \u2013 I now feel even more uncomfortable around jargon.\n    He\u2019s a deep thinker, and I value his input on many areas including sales, marketing, and community development.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJon Lewis\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChief Commercial Officer, Zengenti\n\t\t\t
Content strategist for Fluent<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
June 2013 \u2013 September 2014 (1 year, 4 months) Cambridge, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
I was Fluent\u2019s<\/a> in-house content strategist. Fluent designs and builds websites for SMEs and institutions such as the University of Cambridge. My job is to craft the message of websites \u2013 working closely with clients to understand their perspective, and make sure they have a clear and consistent voice. The work includes all aspects of content strategy from microcopy (details matter) to taxonomies and writing.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"0-2\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \u201cZach and I worked together at Fluent on web projects for about a year. He\u2019s friendly, willing to get stuck in and thoughtful in the way he approaches everything he does. A great addition to any team \u2013 and he\u2019ll make you a spoon with an axe!?\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAndrew Parker\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDesign Director, Fluent\n\t\t\t
Community manager for ScraperWiki<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
February 2013 \u2013 June 2013 (5 months) Liverpool, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
Scraperwiki hired me to manage their community of journalists and developers. In my time there, I launched newsletters, spoke at events and bullied our developers into getting analytics coming in from our various tools. A lot of the work was in creating ways Scraperwiki could hear from their users and connect them through rapidly evolving plans from the company itself.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Scraperwiki\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \u201cZach is a skilled communicator who has a deep understanding of data and how it is used in the world. He can handle all aspects of managing a community in the Internet Age \u2013 from social media and newsletters through to supporting customers individually. He\u2019s particularly interested in learning general conclusions from behaviour of the community, and making sure this feedback improves the product. And in coffee!\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrancis Irving\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCEO, Scraperwiki\n\t\t\t
Digital community manager for Emerald Group Publishing<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
June 2012 \u2013 February 2013 (9 months) Yorkshire, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
I helped Emerald prepare for its first digital community offerings, looked after interns, and built up a working group within the company to support their online efforts. This involved pitching the very idea of a digital community to sceptical directors, and liaising with academics to support Emerald\u2019s first community project, which has since been launched at networkedscholar.com. I worked like a kind of internal consultant on many projects across divisions as part of the Digital team.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Emerald\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t
Community manager for Kasabi<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
January 2011 \u2013 June 2012 (18 months) Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
Kasabi was a data marketplace startup project at Talis, and I had the privilege of helping to plan and launch the beta as their community manager. The role was a mixture of strategy and groundwork, which included organising (and speaking at) events, writing marketing materials, conducting surveys, and setting up analytics.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"0-5\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Zach is really passionate about connecting with the community, he successfully built up a network of connections first as the editor of Nodalities magazine and later as community manager for Kasabi. He is enthusiastic and keen to learn new skills.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeigh Dodds\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCTO, Kasabi\n\t\t\t
Editor of Nodalities Magazine and platform evangelist at Talis<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
April 2008 \u2013 December 2010 (2 years, 10 months) Birmingham, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>
Talis built a software platform for semantic web technologies. My job was to tell Talis\u2019 story and that of the Semantic Web to interested people \u2014 and to help people who might become interested to pay attention.<\/p>\n
As editor of the Magazine of the Semantic Web, Nodalities<\/a>, I helped people to tell their own stories to promote the industry, and put the content together. Sometimes, the stories were best told in person, so I recorded and edited podcasts alongside the magazine. I also spoke at industry events, met hundreds of interesting people, and did some writing for ReadWriteWeb and other web publications.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Talis\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t    \u201cI worked closely with Zach throughout his career at Talis. He has a valuable talent to turn abstract ideas and processes into understandable information. He possesses a curious mind and a fascinating combination of cultural insight and an interest in new technologies. Zach is always willing to share his knowledge and his energy and positive attitude makes it great to work with him for partners and colleagues alike. I would thoroughly recommend Zach and would be more than pleased to work with him again in the future.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIan Davis\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCTO, Talis\n\t\t\t
Education<\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t\t
BA (hons): English Language and Communication<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
King\u2019s College London Sep 2003 \u2013 Jul 2006<\/em><\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"0\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t
Covering a wide range of perspectives on human communication, the degree focused on applied linguistics. We covered psycho- socio- and un-prefixed linguistics, and spent time on language development, acquisition, and cognitive communication. My dissertation was on semantics, with a particular interest in metaphor and propositional communication.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t
Other Experience<\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t\t
Co-founder at Shropgeek<\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
Shropgeek<\/a> started in 2008 on Twitter with a handful of web-based specialists trying to find anything to do in the \u2018Shire. Two friends and I decided to meet up regularly to chat about the web. This spiralled into a full-day web conference with gifted speakers from around the world sharing their experience and expertise with geeks in the UK\u2019s west midlands. I hosted the conferences, acting as compere. Although I no longer live in Shropshire, I keep in touch. And, geeks still get together monthly after the better part of a decade to talk about the web in the \u2018Shire.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"0-7\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t
Group administrator for the largest green-woodworking community<\/h3><\/h3>\t\t\n\t\t
I\u2019m one of a handful of admins for the Facebook group Spoon Carving, Green Woodworking, and Sloyd<\/a>. With more than 20,000 members<\/strong>, we\u2019re fairly sure this is the biggest digital gathering of people interested in green woodworking.<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t
Interests<\/h2>\t\t\n\t\t
A quick tag-cloud of my blog would probably show that my interests centre around forestry and woodworking, coffee, and language. I like sharing ideas, and getting others to do so too, so a friend and I started the Shropgeek gathering, which has become an annual conference.<\/p>\n
Apart from the interests I often write about, I\u2019m also captivated with the countryside, and love little more than taking my dog for a long walk with an audiobook. I carve spoons out of green wood, and attempt to make furniture that doesn\u2019t fall apart. I also enjoy photography, and have an active photostream on flickr.com\/beauvais<\/a>.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13383,"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/13383"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zachbeauvais.com\/host\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}