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Qualifications Certified Practicing Business Broker AIBB Registered Business Valuer API Certificate in Business Valuation Licensed Real Estate Agent \u2013 Northern Territory Licensed Real Estate Agent \u2013 Victoria Licensed Real Estate Agent \u2013 South Australia Licensed Real Estate Agent \u2013 New South Wales Licensed Real Estate Agent \u2013 Queensland Mechanical Engineering Certificate","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.benchmarkbusiness.com.au"],"url":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/user\/brucec\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21983,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions\/21983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devstaging2.benchmarkbusiness.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}