{"id":2,"date":"2007-04-15T19:46:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T02:46:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-05-08T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:57:51","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"sendai77?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people ask me, &#8220;OK, what&#8217;s with sendai77? Where did you come up with it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I think of it as a cross between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.williamgibsonbooks.com\/books\/neuromancer.asp\">Neuromancer<\/a> and Brazil 66.<\/p>\n<p>One day, somewhere around 1998 or 1999, I had to come up with an ID for AOL\/IM. After five minutes thought, I chose &#8216;sendai77&#8217;. That&#8217;s pretty much it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s now possible to be a &#8220;Renaissance person&#8221; thanks to all the technology that surrounds us. I guess I came along at the right time, as far as all that is concerned. I&#8217;ve always had a hard time choosing what I want to be when I grow up, so in one sense I haven&#8217;t grown up yet.<\/p>\n<p>I would characterize myself as a musician who never quit his day gig. Rather, I allowed the day gig to get the better of me and become my actual career. It&#8217;s been a struggle reconciling the two.<\/p>\n<p>Or three. Or four. I&#8217;m avid about photography, began shooting and developing in black-and-white back in the 80s. But I&#8217;ve decided to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jmjfoto.com\/\">segregate my photo work<\/a> from the sendai77 site &#8211; it just makes sense to me for it to be an independent operation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of people ask me, &#8220;OK, what&#8217;s with sendai77? Where did you come up with it?&#8221; Well, I think of it as a cross between Neuromancer and Brazil 66. One day, somewhere around 1998 or 1999, I had to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sendai77.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}