{"id":7,"date":"2008-11-15T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T16:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.alanporter.com\/about"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T17:44:22","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Alan Porter is a web application developer, a nerd, a father, and a friend.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan really digs gadgets, technology, and networks.\u00a0 He <\/strong><strong>enjoys working with open source software, and he is a long-time member of the Triangle Linux Users Group. His favorite Linux distributions are Debian and Ubuntu.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He has two grown children, which continue to amaze him daily. And he is married to a kind and beautiful Malaysian woman, who puts up with way more crap than any one person should.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Alan&#8217;s contact info can be found on his <\/strong><a title=\"Alan's contact info\" href=\"http:\/\/alanporter.com\/?misc\/contact.html\"><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e;\"><span style=\"color: #4e4e4e;\"><strong>main web page<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Porter is a web application developer, a nerd, a father, and a friend. Alan really digs gadgets, technology, and networks.\u00a0 He enjoys working with open source software, and he is a long-time member of the Triangle Linux Users Group. His favorite Linux distributions are Debian and Ubuntu. He has two grown children, which continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","count-0","even alt","author-alan","last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanporter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}