{"id":21,"date":"2022-12-20T14:54:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T14:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/about\/"},"modified":"2023-06-01T12:04:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T12:04:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Hairball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"92\" height=\"92\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/hairball-1-e1685050550789.png\" alt=\"Hairball logo\" class=\"wp-image-42\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">About Me:<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">I&#8217;ve been programming for fun since early in high school and then as a career later.  I wrote my first program more than 30 years ago and it&#8217;s been a wild ride from there to here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Why &#8220;Hairball&#8221;?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">It&#8217;s an old nickname I was first given in high school.  It&#8217;s a variation on my last name that someone came up with, and I kind of liked it so I kept it.  It&#8217;s got nothing to do with cats, though I do love cats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I turn little tiny switches on and off in specific patterns to help them learn how to turn themselves on and off in useful ways.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-tertiary-background-color has-background is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">Reach out to me:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contact Me<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me: I&#8217;ve been programming for fun since early in high school and then as a career later. I wrote my first program more than 30 years ago and it&#8217;s been a wild ride from there to here. Why &#8220;Hairball&#8221;? It&#8217;s an old nickname I was first given in high school. It&#8217;s a variation on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hairballgamesllc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}