{"id":2,"date":"2010-10-17T20:10:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T20:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madstone.net\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-05-05T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T13:55:47","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello world! My name&#8217;s Jorah, and I&#8217;m a SharePoint site manager at work. <a href=\"https:\/\/rushbrooksoap.com\/\">My side business is making soap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had this blog on-line for years, but I forget about it sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve found the right M.J. Lavin if you&#8217;re looking for someone you knew growing up in Milford, Massachusetts in the 1970s; were on a ship with me in the late &#8217;70s in New London, Connecticut; worked with me in any of various jobs around northern &amp; eastern Massachusetts in the 1980s and 1990s; or worked at First Union, Wachovia, or Wells Fargo with me since the late 1990s. I&#8217;m also known as<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chip Lavin<\/li>\n<li>Jorah Lavin<\/li>\n<li>Jorah Moss<\/li>\n<li>Milford J. Lavin<\/li>\n<li>M.J. Lavin<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve answered to all of those names at various times. Contact me at <strong>m.j.lavin at gmail dot com<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Other places where I have an on-line identity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/madstone.net\/lavin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My personal contact page<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mastodon &#8211; (Jorah on the Wandering.Shop server)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello world! My name&#8217;s Jorah, and I&#8217;m a SharePoint site manager at work. My side business is making soap. I&#8217;ve had this blog on-line for years, but I forget about it sometimes. You&#8217;ve found the right M.J. Lavin if you&#8217;re looking for someone you knew growing up in Milford, Massachusetts in the 1970s; were on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=2\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PgY3e-2","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":978,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=978","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":0},"title":"Remembering my father","author":"Jorah","date":"April 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"(This is the text of my comments at my father's funeral on April 24, 2008 in Bellingham, Massachusetts) My earliest memory of my dad is of walking down the path next to our garden. It was very early on a foggy morning, and I was so tiny that I remember\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=978#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=950","url_meta":{"origin":2,"position":1},"title":"About me and my knitting","author":"Jorah","date":"January 2, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I have done various craft-like activities since I got out of high school... some years I did none, some years I did a fair amount. I used to be a carpenter's helper and got some skill with those tools. Later, I learned the basics of crochet, but it didn't really\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 3 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 3 comments","link":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/?page_id=950#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madstone.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}