{"id":5,"date":"2013-08-13T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/?p=5"},"modified":"2013-08-13T01:20:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T01:20:59","slug":"about-this-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2013\/08\/13\/about-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"About this site&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello!<\/p>\n<p>I first built the Music For A New Age web site in 1995.\u00a0 At one time, it was the number one Google hit when &#8220;New Age Music&#8221; was the search criteria.<\/p>\n<p>That was then, this is now.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve let the site go catatonic, having found work, life and technology take priority.\u00a0 So, I thought maybe it&#8217;s time to get modern.\u00a0 With the latest and greatest software, I chose to turn my &#8220;first generation portal&#8221; into something a little more interactive. And personal.<\/p>\n<p>The title of this blog comes from two of my primary interests: Running and politics.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been a runner for decades, and although I can tell my days of distance running are numbered, I still have a love for the activity, and hope to be running into my declining years. My interest in politics goes back to my childhood, growing up in a government service family, and my undergraduate studies in international relations.\u00a0 I confess, that the current state of politics &#8211; American politics in particular &#8211; distresses me.\u00a0 I think we&#8217;ve come so far from what the original framers intended that they wouldn&#8217;t recognize the country they birthed.\u00a0 And many died to preserve.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ll be writing about things that interest me.\u00a0 I have no intention of running for office; I served six years as a volunteer in a state-mandated organization and feel I&#8217;ve done my part for public service.\u00a0 From here on in, I&#8217;ll be an observer, running FROM office!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I first built the Music For A New Age web site in 1995.\u00a0 At one time, it was the number one Google hit when &#8220;New Age Music&#8221; was the search criteria. That was then, this is now. I&#8217;ve let &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/2013\/08\/13\/about-this-site\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mfna.org\/rfo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}