{"id":2,"date":"2007-08-29T16:25:36","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T20:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:11:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:11:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/me3a.jpg\" alt=\"John J Schultz\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/john.joseph.schultz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/ico_facebook.png\" alt=\"Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td align=\"center\" valign=\"top\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/1160929\/john-j-schultz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"profile for John J Schultz at Stack Overflow, Q&amp;A for professional and enthusiast programmers\" src=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/users\/flair\/1160929.png\" alt=\"profile for John J Schultz at Stack Overflow, Q&amp;A for professional and enthusiast programmers\" width=\"208\" height=\"58\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>My name is John J Schultz. I am a software developer who began writing code at the age of 12, and I have over 40 years of combined code development and systems experience on Windows, Linux and some other platforms now found only in antique shops, museums or even eBay. I also worked for two years as a software engineer at Google in Pittsburgh. The bulk of my development expertise is on the Windows platform, but I am also a huge fan of software interfacing with hardware&#8211;and I have 13 Raspberry Pi and Libre Computer single board computers to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to computer programming languages, I also am fairly fluent in three foreign languages: German, Russian and French. My wife, Heidi, is a native German speaker who also speaks some French, Yugoslav and Hebrew, and studied Latin.\u00a0 Because of this, our two sons and our daughter have no problem getting confused.<\/p>\n<p>I am also a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brewing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">zymurgist<\/a>, enjoying my amateur status.\u00a0 You can read about my adventures with the &#8220;Yeastie Boys&#8221; in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=19\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">Home Brew<\/a> tab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is John J Schultz. I am a software developer who began writing code at the age of 12, and I have over 40 years of combined code development and systems experience on Windows, Linux and some other platforms now found only in antique shops, museums or even eBay. I also worked for two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3133,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}