{"id":138,"date":"2022-01-17T18:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/?p=138"},"modified":"2022-01-17T18:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T23:26:25","slug":"youve-come-a-long-way-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/2022\/01\/17\/youve-come-a-long-way-cowboy\/","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Come a Long Way, Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Born in Texas and raised in Florida, I’ve lived in over 50 places. At the age of 15, my mother shipped me to Pennsyltucky. I lived in the foothills of the PA and MD Appalachian mountains, where I lived on a cattle farm and worked on three different organic farms along with my regular job until I moved to WV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I  \u2764 mountains!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then I loaded up the truck and moved to DC. I currently split my time between the two places. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve had a stupid amount of jobs. That said, I was a UPS Driver<\/strong> for 12 years before he decided to part ways and attend the University of Maryland at the age of 34. I currently work for the Petworth Neighborhood Library in Washington, DC where I run four writers workshops, teach computer literacy, genealogy, job-seeking, Baby Lap Time, and direct people to the public restroom. I’m also the Secretary-Treasurer for AFSCME Local 1808.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m part cowboy, part toddler, part old man, and according to my partner Elaine, “a complete dork.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is my happy face<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been an activist for 20 years and am affectionately known as “anarchy dad” to some of the Mid-Atlantic radical milieu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also known to be a part-time lyricist for the progressive rock band Aerchive<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also have been known to write stories. For example, The Origin of Ridleymas,<\/a> which is a weird story about a number of things, but includes a self-cannibalizing cryptid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Born in Texas and raised in Florida, I’ve lived in over 50 places. At the age of 15, my mother shipped me to Pennsyltucky. I lived in the foothills of the PA and MD Appalachian mountains, where I lived on...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torch.cci.fsu.edu\/~lis5313\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}