{"id":2,"date":"2006-03-14T11:08:03","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T16:08:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2021-01-11T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T07:26:04","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to start another blog for a very long time now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess this is the fifth kick or so. Each that came before has gone very stale, neglected. I&#8217;d come back one day to find it withered and dead, hopelessly out of date. This time will be different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as I sit here, morning coffee close at hand, laptop on my knee, a couple of configuration windows open &#8211; along with this mostly-empty page &#8211; I feel a bit of a loss for words. Well, I&#8217;m not going to let it bother me. One of the things I&#8217;ve learned over the past half century is that worrying about such stuff just ain&#8217;t worth it. I&#8217;ve got a bit more configuration to do, then I&#8217;m going to pull on some boots and throw a leg over the Harley. It&#8217;s a beautiful summer morning. I need some wind in my face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, Lomcevak? Thought you&#8217;d never ask. It&#8217;s Czechoslovakian. Translated to English it roughly means <em>headache<\/em>, or <em>hangover<\/em>. It&#8217;s the name of a funky aerobatic maneuver, sort of an end-over-end tumble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>28 June 2007<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been meaning to start another blog for a very long time now. I guess this is the fifth kick or so. Each that came before has gone very stale, neglected. I&#8217;d come back one day to find it withered and dead, hopelessly out of date. This time will be different! But as I sit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kickstart<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}