{"id":2,"date":"2007-04-07T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-08T22:28:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T05:28:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flickr-frame\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/penalba\/3824064712\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"flickr-photo\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3527\/3824064712_b07f2f0978.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I was bred and buttered, as they say, in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively, but now I live in an old house in inland southern California with my wife and two kids.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;CQ2&#8221; is shorthand for &#8220;Condor&#8217;s Quill II&#8221;, since I had a blog-like mailing list years ago, reporting to family and friends on our travels in Southeast Asia, named &#8220;Condor&#8217;s Quill.&#8221;  More than somewhat immodestly, it comes from a line in <em>Moby Dick<\/em>: &#8220;Give me a condor&#8217;s quill! Give me Vesuvius&#8217; crater for an inkstand!&#8221;  Oh, how I envy you if you haven&#8217;t read <em>Moby Dick<\/em> yet.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow me on <a title=\"CQ2 on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/cq2\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"LinkedIn\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/edmurphy\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I was bred and buttered, as they say, in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectively, but now I live in an old house in inland southern California with my wife and two kids. &#8220;CQ2&#8221; is shorthand for &#8220;Condor&#8217;s Quill II&#8221;, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/about\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P8jQA6-2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/cqtwo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}