{"id":9,"date":"2020-04-14T13:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2021-01-15T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T17:44:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the Pete Sears who played keyboards on Rod Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;Every Picture Tells a Story&#8221; (et al), Jefferson Starship&#8217;s &#8220;Red Octopus&#8221; (et al), and bass\/keyboards\/guitar\/whatever alongside Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. John and countless others, and on many classic albums since the 1960s.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 If he sounds a lot more interesting than me, I quite understand.\u00a0 Have a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Sears\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Sears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Pete Sears is just a retired software engineer\/manager with a preference for causing as little suffering in the world as I can reasonably manage.\u00a0 This blog is to provide somewhere I can write about things I find interesting in the outside world, without upsetting my friends on social media if my perspective on them turns out to be a bit disheartening (or even a teensy bit cynical).\u00a0 Or just boring.\u00a0 So if you don&#8217;t like the content, that&#8217;s fine; it&#8217;s just a blog, and it&#8217;s up to you whether you read it or not.<\/p>\n<p>People who like a more frivolous, personal and hopefully amusing view of my experience of the world since I retired might prefer my original blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theinfiniteweekend.blogspot.com\/\">http:\/\/theinfiniteweekend.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or if even that&#8217;s too much, maybe just <a href=\"http:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/sample-page\/\">cat videos.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the Pete Sears who played keyboards on Rod Stewart&#8217;s &#8220;Every Picture Tells a Story&#8221; (et al), Jefferson Starship&#8217;s &#8220;Red Octopus&#8221; (et al), and bass\/keyboards\/guitar\/whatever alongside Jerry Garcia, Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur, Jimi Hendrix, Dr. John and countless others, and on many classic albums since the 1960s.\u00a0 Sorry.\u00a0 If he sounds a lot more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"spay_email":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aprendo.co.uk\/interestingthings\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}