{"id":10,"date":"2026-05-07T08:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T07:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/helenwp\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2026-06-04T06:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T05:26:59","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born in Winnipeg, Canada, 1957. Got to Vancouver in 1974, married Rob in \u201980. Went to Johannesburg in 1987 to set up a safe house for the underground anti-apartheid movement. Left rather quickly in 1990 and returned to Vancouver. Worked as a bookseller for several years, then earned a Bachelor of General Studies (Humanities) degree at Simon Fraser University, 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Returned to South Africa in 1997. Received an MA in Philosophy (cum laude) at Stellenbosch University in 2002, with a dissertation later published as <em>Love &amp; Arms: Violence and Justification After Levinas<\/em>. Met up with local philosophers in the Southern African Philosophical Counselling Association at the same time. In practice since&nbsp;2002, along with publications and presentations at international conferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity has-custom-css wp-custom-css-7203787a\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100064388484212&amp;sk=photos_by\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Littera Scripta<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for the illuminations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in Winnipeg, Canada, 1957. Got to Vancouver in 1974, married Rob in \u201980. Went to Johannesburg in 1987 to set up a safe house for the underground anti-apartheid movement. Left rather quickly in 1990 and returned to Vancouver. Worked&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2445,"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/2445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.further.co.za\/helen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}