{"id":16,"date":"2015-01-07T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2015-01-07T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T15:54:14","slug":"about-blake","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/?page_id=16","title":{"rendered":"About Blake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a father\/husband, security professional and &#8220;ops&#8221; engineer currently working at a startup in Boulder (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simpleenergy.com\">Simple Energy<\/a>) chock full of amazing people. I support Net Neutrality and freedom of speech and still hold on to the &#8220;quaint&#8221;, fleeting notion of privacy of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>If you made it this far and really want even more personal details, I&#8217;m pro-environment (even if I fail personally here every day) and as such am staunchly anti-GMO, as I believe the greatest &#8220;benefit&#8221; of this technology has been little more than a massive increase in pesticide use and agro-chemical company profits. Not to mention it led to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biological_patent\">patenting of life<\/a>, which I&#8217;m not a huge fan of. In a similar vein, I don&#8217;t think that water &#8211; that most basic and essential element of life &#8211; should be something that international corporations should be able to &#8220;own&#8221;. If you think religion is an impetus for war, wait until you take away a population&#8217;s water!<\/p>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s more, but that&#8217;s probably more than you cared to know already, so I&#8217;ll leave it there.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested (for some unknown reason) in my infrequent tweets, you can find me <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/okiepilgrim\">@Okiepilgrim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a father\/husband, security professional and &#8220;ops&#8221; engineer currently working at a startup in Boulder (Simple Energy) chock full of amazing people. I support Net Neutrality and freedom of speech and still hold on to the &#8220;quaint&#8221;, fleeting notion of privacy of individuals. If you made it this far and really want even more personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/?page_id=16\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Blake<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blakecorbitt.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}