{"id":155,"date":"2006-06-11T14:31:39","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T20:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2007-02-14T16:44:04","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T23:44:04","slug":"about-java-zenthinking-out-loud","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?page_id=155","title":{"rendered":"About Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Java Zen:TOL Readers,<\/p>\n<p>Who am I and what&#8217;s the story behind this weblog? No one ever believes my real story of having been stolen by Gypsies as a child, raised by wolves in a cave and currently on paid retainer to Paris Hilton as a dialog coach, so I&#8217;ve had to invent something more plausible to tell at parties and post on-line.<\/p>\n<table align=\"left\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td style=\"padding-bottom: 20px; padding-right: 20px;\"><img src='https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/images\/CELLO_DSC00215_02.JPG' alt='GPE - Cello' \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Paris is nice enough and easy to get along with, being unencumbered by the thought process as she is. But I&#8217;ve been feeling the need for more creative space. The kind of space where I could hone my writing skills and maybe even spark a little dialogue. Java Zen:TOL is that space.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been writing since I can remember and penned, or rather &#8220;crayoned&#8221;, my first book, &#8220;The Mouse Picnic&#8221;, at age 5. Building on this early success, I expanded my writing capabilities to include biochemical research papers, white papers, grants for non-profit funding, a critically acclaimed personality test (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1884180000\/sr=8-3\/qid=1150058448\/ref=sr_1_3\/104-4846667-5761543?%5Fencoding=UTF8\">The Motivation Profile<\/a>, ISBN 1884180000) and now this personal blog.<\/p>\n<p>If the question on your mind is &#8220;What the hell do <strong>you<\/strong> know?&#8221;, start <a href=\"https:\/\/www.javazen.com\/resume\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Java Zen:TOL Readers, Who am I and what&#8217;s the story behind this weblog? No one ever believes my real story of having been stolen by Gypsies as a child, raised by wolves in a cave and currently on paid retainer to Paris Hilton as a dialog coach, so I&#8217;ve had to invent something more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}