{"id":534,"date":"2021-02-24T05:26:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T05:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/?page_id=534"},"modified":"2021-07-11T07:29:43","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:29:43","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/?page_id=534","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who am I? How often do we ask that question of ourselves?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since I lack the gene that causes me to wax poetic, I prefer bulleted lists:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-black-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-block-list\"><li>Midwesterner, from the &#8220;great&#8221; state of Illinois<\/li><li>Suburban boy: big yards, parking lots, shopping malls&#8230;<\/li><li>Youngest of three (and yes, birth order most definitely matters)<\/li><li>White, cisgendered gay male (look it up, it won&#8217;t hurt, I promise)<\/li><li>Born and bred Missouri-Synod Lutheran (recovering)<\/li><li>Degree in Music Education from Concordia, River Forest<\/li><li>Taught instrumental music for five years<\/li><li>Spent nearly 20 years living in NYC, various parts of Queens, still miss it<\/li><li>Been working in fundraising for almost 25 years<\/li><li>Star Trek fanatic (most sci fi in general)<\/li><li>Love 20th Century classical music<\/li><li>Met my hubby in NY almost 25 years ago<\/li><li>Live in the wilds of Snohomish County, 20 miles north of Seattle<\/li><li>You&#8217;ll figure out the rest as we go along<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? How often do we ask that question of ourselves? Since I lack the gene that causes me to wax poetic, I prefer bulleted lists: Midwesterner, from the &#8220;great&#8221; state of Illinois Suburban boy: big yards, parking lots, shopping malls&#8230; Youngest of three (and yes, birth order most definitely matters) White, cisgendered gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-534","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/534\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatlanderinexile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}