{"id":189,"date":"2007-05-23T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T22:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/23\/8-random-facts\/"},"modified":"2021-10-30T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T19:59:13","slug":"8-random-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/8-random-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Random Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.logtar.com\/\">Logtar<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.logtar.com\/archives\/2007\/05\/07\/8-random-facts\/\">tagged me<\/a> with a meme to post 8 Random Facts about yours truly. These are things that most people don&#8217;t know about me, so I thought it would be pretty fun. So, off we go&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have visited over half of the 50 states in the U.S., but I&#8217;ve never left North America.  I&#8217;m hoping to change this soon.<\/li>\n<li>I had an opportunity to go on a 35 mile backpacking trek in the Sierras back during my early teen years when I was in scouts.  Hiking past the tree line up to 14k feet where there is snow, even in the middle of July, was really damn cool.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve broken my nose while bodyboarding (face first, right into the sand in shallow water).<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve broken my head while mountain biking&#8230;  Took off a jump and bit it hard.  Walked a few miles back to my apartment with my shirt held on the top of my head to stop the bleeding.  The doctors used the medical equivalent of a staple gun to sew me back up.  That event taught me to always wear a helmet while riding.<\/li>\n<li>I met my wife, Katrina, at the same location that Katrina&#8217;s parents met several years earlier.<\/li>\n<li>I have not seen any movie of the Star Wars trilogy in it&#8217;s entirety.<\/li>\n<li>Cereal makes a good breakfast, lunch, or dinner.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t stand going to see doctors or dentists&#8230;  I do have regular dentist cleanings, but I haven&#8217;t been to see a doctor in the past 4+ years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Logtar tagged me with a meme to post 8 Random Facts about yours truly. These are things that most people don&#8217;t know about me, so I thought it would be pretty fun. So, off we go&#8230; I have visited over half of the 50 states in the U.S., but I&#8217;ve never left North America. I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}