{"id":170,"date":"2010-02-24T17:13:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=170"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:15:54","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who am I?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a writer, just getting started. I call what I turn out Adventure or maybe Warrior Fiction. My hubris is not so great that I think I get to create genres. Nor am I under the impression that I&#8217;m the only guy writing about warriors. Far from it.<\/p>\n<p>I embrace the Military Science Fiction genre proudly. I&#8217;m just not entirely satisfied with the appellation because of the implied limits.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also a soldier in the National Guard. I&#8217;ve served in Kuwait, Iraq, Senegal, and Afghanistan and will go back to the war again.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I&#8217;m a happily married father of five children who lives in Utah. Currently I work full-time for the National Guard. If you want to know more, contact me somehow and ask.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wordpress\/?page_id=296\">Email me.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/people\/Ethan-Skarstedt\/100000565753662\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook me<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Or drop a comment somewhere. I like comments. It hardly matters right now, with the site having garnered a whopping 21 unique visitors since its inception on 28 September 2010 (at least 4 of which I know were me on different machines) but hey, I like to be prepared. I&#8217;ll rule the comment threads, if and when they start, with a fickle fist. My site, my rules.<\/p>\n<p>Disagreements and discussion of same are highly encouraged. Uncivil behavior will be corrected, punished, erased, and banned, not necessarily in that order.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who am I? I&#8217;m a writer, just getting started. I call what I turn out Adventure or maybe Warrior Fiction. My hubris is not so great that I think I get to create genres. Nor am I under the impression that I&#8217;m the only guy writing about warriors. Far from it. I embrace the Military &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/about-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-170","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1380,"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170\/revisions\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ethanskar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}