{"id":92,"date":"2007-08-25T18:40:29","date_gmt":"2007-08-26T01:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-wests.net\/rick\/2007\/08\/25\/a-little-bit-about-me\/"},"modified":"2007-08-25T18:40:29","modified_gmt":"2007-08-26T01:40:29","slug":"a-little-bit-about-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2007\/08\/25\/a-little-bit-about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"A little bit about me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clif Mims tagged me<\/a> the other day, with a little game of blogosphere tag. Here’s the rules:<\/p>\n

THE RULES<\/p>\n

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  1. Post these rules before you give your facts.<\/li>\n
  2. List 8 random facts about yourself.<\/li>\n
  3. At the end of your post, choose\/tag people and list their names, linking to them.<\/li>\n
  4. Leave a comment on their blog, letting them know they\u2019ve been tagged.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And here’s a few interesting things about me:<\/p>\n

    1. I love to run and have completed four marathons.<\/p>\n

    2. I met my wife when I was dressed as Harry Potter, signing books for kids. That’s a story for another day …<\/p>\n

    3. I\u00a0 served a 2-year voluntary church in Ecuador for my church (LDS). I wanted to stay longer, and I still hope to go back and do it again someday. We can learn so much from those wonderful, humble people.<\/p>\n

    4. My bachelor’s degree was in English, and I wanted to become a professor of American literature from the frontier period (late 1800s). That was, until I was student teaching and heard from another teacher about the field of instructional technology. The rest is history \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    5. I worked for several years as a journalist, mostly as a sports reporter. That’s how I paid my way through my undergraduate school. I still sometimes miss the excitement of being “in the know” that comes from working in a newsroom and the thrill of quick interviews and race-to-beat-the-deadline stories.<\/p>\n

    6. I am horribly addicted to ice cream. That will be my downfall in life :-). There’s a carton of Extreme Moose Tracks in my freezer right now.<\/p>\n

    7. I am a huge Acapella music fan. I think groups that use only their voices as instruments rock! Some favs are Eclipse, Voice Male, Inside Out, and Vocal Point.<\/p>\n

    8. I like trying new things. For example, this year my wife and I have been trying out Tae Kwan Do. I’m up to the third level (yellow belt). It’s fun to try something new for a while and have a goal to strive for! Hi-yah!<\/p>\n

    I also learned in this game that I read a lot of bloggers, but don’t actually know very many bloggers well enough to tag them. But I’ll tag my good buddy Geoff at BYU<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Clif Mims tagged me the other day, with a little game of blogosphere tag. Here’s the rules: THE RULES Post these rules before you give your facts. List 8 random facts about yourself. At the end of your post, choose\/tag people and list their names, linking to them. Leave a comment on their blog, letting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-92","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}