{"id":1707,"date":"2017-03-11T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T03:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/?page_id=1707"},"modified":"2018-05-16T15:15:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T22:15:38","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/about\/66jim-now2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1222\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1222\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/about\/66jim-now2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?fit=1000%2C750&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,750\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPod touch&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1424108075&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.18&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.033333333333333&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jim\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Jim Blodget&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jim&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1222 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Jim\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?resize=540%2C405&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?resize=200%2C150&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/66jim-now2.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">I&#8217;m Jim Blodget. I&#8217;m enjoying art, music, and other hobbies in my retirement. I was a media specialist for nearly 40 years and also taught photography, web graphics, and fencing at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. I&#8217;ve been working with computers since I bought my first one (an Apple IIe) in 1982, and I&#8217;ve been on the Web since it began in the mid 1990&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">Learn more about me on my\u00a0<a class=\"linkStyle_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/about\/\">About page<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">Visit my\u00a0<a class=\"linkStyle_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/blog\/\">Blog<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">\u00a0to follow my latest activities and interests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">Take a look at my\u00a0<a class=\"linkStyle_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/art\/\">Art<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">,\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"linkStyle_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/music\/\">Music<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">, and\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"linkStyle_7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/photography\/\">Photography<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">\u00a0pages for samples of my work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">The\u00a0<a class=\"linkStyle_3\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/links\/\">Links<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">\u00a0page connects you with my other online sites and activities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Style2\">Use the\u00a0<a class=\"linkStyle_10\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/contact\/\">Contact<\/a><span class=\"Style6\">\u00a0page to send me a message.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I&#8217;m Jim Blodget. I&#8217;m enjoying art, music, and other hobbies in my retirement. I was a media specialist for nearly 40 years and also taught photography, web graphics, and fencing at Chemeketa Community College in Salem, Oregon. I&#8217;ve been working with computers since I bought my first one (an Apple IIe) in 1982, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/template-onecolumn.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1707","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3xTIN-rx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1707\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jimblodget.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}