{"id":7,"date":"2020-12-06T17:32:57","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T17:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2020-12-08T22:26:40","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T22:26:40","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7","title":{"rendered":"Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m John Fiksdal. I\u2019ve spent most of my life in media in some way or another. Put a pirate radio station on the air with friend Nat at 10. Disk jockey at 16. Morning TV anchor&nbsp;at 20. Partnered to form Media One\u00ae at 24.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I haven\u2019t had a&nbsp;<em>real<\/em>&nbsp;job since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along the way, I\u2019ve learned what my job is. It\u2019s not about TV spots or brochures or web pages, or even ultimately about cranking out content. It\u2019s about understanding needs and&nbsp;wants, and figuring out what begs to be said. About anything. A product or service. An idea. A worldview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well, I\u2019ve got a bunch to say. That&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing this stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can do this democracy thing. Catch up to a world that is leaving America in the dirt. Together, we can kick ass. But first, we\u2019ll need to come to terms with what&#8217;s really real, and see beyond the obfuscation of left\/right posturing and rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do so, we\u2019ll need to start with the very basics. I&#8217;ll try to not bore you too bad. ly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi. I\u2019m John Fiksdal. I\u2019ve spent most of my life in media in some way or another. Put a pirate radio station on the air with friend Nat at 10. Disk jockey at 16. Morning TV anchor&nbsp;at 20. Partnered to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=7\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45,"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/45"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnfiksdal.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}