{"id":5,"date":"2012-04-27T14:34:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learning.ejohnlovebooks.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:13:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T05:13:26","slug":"about-this-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/about-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"About this site"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<p>This site is an experiment. It&#8217;s my attempt to document the wide array of personal interests, curiosities, and self-directed learning efforts which continually seem to occupy my off-hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My interests tend to vary<\/strong> &#8211; I hop around a lot conceptually, in terms of what motivates or excites me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I go through phases;<\/strong> minor obsessions with very different topics or areas of interest. Like the avante-garde pop of Devo, or the social commentary of Popeye and Groucho Marx, or the design philosophies of the Bauhaus, or Einstein&#8217;s Relativity. I have always tended to hop laterally from subject to subject, and then try to integrate and assimilate that new information into what I already know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I&#8217;m mostly a visual and kinesthetic learner. I need to see and make images and build things to help me understand.<\/strong> So, aside from the chronological, bloggy aspect of this site, I thought that it would be useful to include image galleries to show any research that I have done, or to show illustrations that helped me to get to where I wanted to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere there are connections &#8211; common threads &#8211; between all these various areas of interest. Finding those threads and tugging on them is part of the joy of discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>I am a life-long learner, and most likely, a perpetual student.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>This site is an experiment. It&#8217;s my attempt to document the wide array of personal interests, curiosities, and self-directed learning efforts which continually seem to occupy my off-hours. My interests tend to vary &#8211;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ejohnlovebooks.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}