{"id":39,"date":"2015-02-21T15:20:49","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T15:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-01-15T14:32:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T14:32:44","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"About Gordon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/me-shelf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-26 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/me-shelf-1024x384.jpg\" alt=\"My Interest\" width=\"610\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/me-shelf-1024x384.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/me-shelf-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/me-shelf.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am Gordon Joseph Clarke. I have a lot of older interests and current interests reflected by this website.\u00a0 Some of these interests are the fine and performing arts,\u00a0basketball, gymnastics, juggling, unicycling, road cycling, capoeira, graphic design, photography, audio\/video production, website development, start-ups and entrepreneurial activities.<\/p>\n<p>I got hooked on acrobatics when I say &#8220;Trapeze&#8221; in the late 50&#8217;s starring Burt Lancaster , Tony Curtis, and Gina Lollobrigida.\u00a0 I want to fly, swing, and flip.\u00a0 In one scene Burt and Tony walked down an alley talking while walking on their hands.\u00a0 I had a swing set, trees, and walls to climb. I started kicking up to my hands to attempt a handstand.\u00a0 This interest continued into junior high where I started do the &#8220;bars&#8221; and tumbling.\u00a0 As a freshman in high school, I made the gymnastic team.\u00a0 My college team placed in the top 5 in the nation three different years.\u00a0 I was all-around, so I worked the 6 Olympics events.<\/p>\n<p>I am now a Business Development Manager and the Certification Manager for FamilySearch where I have been employed for the last 9 years.\u00a0 My career has been sales, marketing, and business start-ups in the areas of finance, insurance, computers, software, automated accounting, digital video, CD-ROMs, and websites.<\/p>\n<p>In this the &#8220;About Me&#8221; category of my blog,\u00a0 I will add thoughts and activities that are more personal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am Gordon Joseph Clarke. I have a lot of older interests and current interests reflected by this website.\u00a0 Some of these interests are the fine and performing arts,\u00a0basketball, gymnastics, juggling, unicycling, road cycling, capoeira, graphic design, photography, audio\/video production, website development, start-ups and entrepreneurial activities. I got hooked on acrobatics when I say &#8220;Trapeze&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gordonjclarke.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}