{"id":7,"date":"2009-09-12T09:16:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T13:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2013-10-21T23:49:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T23:49:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in Fort Wayne, a small industrial city in the northeast corner of Indiana. After graduating from high school I enlisted in the Army and spent the next three years with the last of America\u2019s happy draftees. After the Army I married Paula, a fellow Hoosier, and we settled down to start a family.<\/p>\n<p>When our youngest child was three, Paula started college. She graduated with her teaching degree the same year our oldest daughter finished high school. Once she started working, I began work on an Associate\u2019s degree in Computer Science. Weeks turned to years, and I&#8217;ve been working in the field long enough to get a Bachelor\u2019s degree, relocate to the Buckeye state, and finish an MBA program.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_465\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/s297323209.onlinehome.us\/Flatland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/HomePagePortrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-465 \" alt=\"Flatland Rescue - always on the hunt for new solutions.\" src=\"http:\/\/s297323209.onlinehome.us\/Flatland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/HomePagePortrait-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/HomePagePortrait-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/HomePagePortrait.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flatland Rescue &#8211; always on the hunt for new solutions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I love developing and using technology and am\u00a0currently working on a <a title=\"Livescribe and Evernote\" href=\"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/?p=368\">series of blog posts<\/a> to help Livescribe users who use Evernote as the primary repository for their digital pen&#8217;s output.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I grew up in Fort Wayne, a small industrial city in the northeast corner of Indiana. After graduating from high school I enlisted in the Army and spent the next three years with the last of America\u2019s happy draftees. After <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/?page_id=7\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &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":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":474,"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlandrescue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}