{"id":2,"date":"2008-09-18T20:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T03:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointsunknown.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-10-20T13:08:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T20:08:53","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Points Unknown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-categories-list wp-block-categories-taxonomy-category alignright wp-block-categories\">\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-5\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/adventures\/\">Adventures<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/gear\/\">Gear<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-79\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/moto\/\">Moto<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-82\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/mtb\/\">MTB<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-89\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/lifestyle\/music\/\">Music<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-7\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/projects\/\">Projects<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-80\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/sprinter\/\">Sprinter<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-29\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/lifestyle\/\">Words and Sounds<\/a>\n<\/li>\n\t<li class=\"cat-item cat-item-90\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/category\/lifestyle\/writing\/\">Writing<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I&#8217;m Austin &#8211; creator and main contributor to Points Unknown.\u00a0I&#8217;ve put this site together to capture bits and pieces of knowledge, research, and wisdom I have come across through my own personal and professional projects, travels close to home and abroad, insights from long nights spent scouring the\u00a0internet, and various musings from long rides across the country. Thanks for checking it out, I hope you find some of the material useful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While there are a wide range of topics covered here, they generally fall into simple categories, as shown above and at right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-columns\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__gallery\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__row\"><div class=\"tiled-gallery__col\"><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20180824_103152328.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20180824_103152328.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_20180824_103152328.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1200&#038;ssl=1 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class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/101_1647-Large.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=574&#038;ssl=1 574w\" alt=\"\" data-height=\"768\" data-id=\"231\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/letters-from-nepal-4-of-4\/101_1647-large\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/101_1647-Large.jpg\" data-width=\"574\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/101_1647-Large.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><figure class=\"tiled-gallery__item\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/101_2881.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=600&#038;ssl=1 600w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/101_2881.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=900&#038;ssl=1 900w,https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/101_2881.jpg?strip=info&#038;w=1024&#038;ssl=1 1024w\" alt=\"lots of knot tying\" data-height=\"768\" data-id=\"436\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/nasa-para-wing-npw9b-construction\/101_2881\/\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/101_2881.jpg\" data-width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/101_2881.jpg?ssl=1\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A little bit about me<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I consider myself a scientist, engineer, musician, programmer, weekend warrior, and sometimes adventurer. I have worked as a farm hand, a <a href=\"http:\/\/alaskamountainguides.com\/\">mountain guide<\/a>, a graphic designer, web developer, and a civil engineer. I once taught salsa dancing lessons. I have lived in Alaska, Africa, and <a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/gallery\/e2I2ru4\">Argentina<\/a>, but the<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" Pacific Northwest (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.roamerica.com\/11-signs-you-belong-in-the-pacific-northwest-2\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Pacific Northwest<\/a> will always be home. I love skiing and mountain biking. I am a big fan of the<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maker_culture\"> maker culture<\/a>. I can sing songs from more musicals than most people have ever heard of. I like to play piano and guitar, I dabbled for a while in being a professional pop DJ. In a pinch I can recite all 25 minutes of Alice&#8217;s Restaurant.\u00a0I like long road trips. I love the winter. Sometimes I stand in the rain. I realize the full value of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.waterforpeople.org\/\">water<\/a>. I think that sport climbing is neither. No one has ever accused me of being a perfectionist. Occasionally, I willingly do things I don&#8217;t want to do. Sometimes I dwell on the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m Austin &#8211; creator and main contributor to Points Unknown.\u00a0I&#8217;ve put this site together to capture bits and pieces<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2073,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/contact.php","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pointsunknown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}