{"id":46,"date":"2013-07-17T23:04:15","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T23:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rittmanadams.com\/presto\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2017-06-28T23:47:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T06:47:03","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This humble blog began life at transitophile.blogspot.com, and now has a domain of its own.\u00a0 Lucky you!\u00a0 Think of how exhausting it was to have to type &#8216;blogspot&#8217; after &#8216;transitophile.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/authorphoto-forwordress.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-56\" src=\"http:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/authorphoto-forwordress.jpg\" alt=\"Yours Truly\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI am a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/San_Francisco_Bay_Area\">Bay Area<\/a> native, retired <a href=\"http:\/\/home.lausd.net\/\">LAUSD<\/a> teacher, <a href=\"http:\/\/bluetowerpress.com\/\">novelist<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/transitophile.com\/chango\/madrid-second-impressions\/\">expat<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/36217981@N02\/albums\">shutterbug<\/a> and former director of the late, great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitpeople.org\/\">TransitPeople<\/a>. \u00a0(My life in linked URLs!) \u00a0This is my public soapbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This humble blog began life at transitophile.blogspot.com, and now has a domain of its own.\u00a0 Lucky you!\u00a0 Think of how exhausting it was to have to type &#8216;blogspot&#8217; 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