{"id":2,"date":"2008-04-25T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T17:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-02-15T12:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T16:44:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/angled.jpg\" alt=\"Bret Whissel profile pic\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding: 0px;\" \/> This is an all-purpose blog, but its main intent is to inform users of my <a href=\"\/amortization\/amortize.html\">Amortization Calculator<\/a> about modifications and improvements.  But being who I am, I&#8217;ll occasionally have some other things to say.<\/p>\n<p>If you ever feel like commenting, feel free to sign up and join in.  I like intelligent conversation (an increasingly rare commodity, I fear), and I even <em>enjoy<\/em> differences of opinion, as long as we can talk about these differences without our panties getting in a twist.<\/p>\n<p>So whether you&#8217;re participating or merely lurking, welcome.<\/p>\n<p>The awesome header photo of the Twelve Apostles off the coast of Australia was sent to me as part of a presentation on nature photography from the Smithsonian.  (See the site at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturesbestphotography.com\/\">www.naturesbestphotography.com<\/a>.)  After doing a little digging, I believe the photographer may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benjamindwalls.com\/\">Benjamin Walls<\/a>, but I have no confirmation.  The WordPress theme is Blue-Box, designed by Bob (see the links in the right-hand column under &#8220;Meta&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Bret Whissel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an all-purpose blog, but its main intent is to inform users of my Amortization Calculator about modifications and improvements. But being who I am, I&#8217;ll occasionally have some other things to say. If you ever feel like commenting, feel free to sign up and join in. I like intelligent conversation (an increasingly rare &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bretwhissel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}