{"id":5,"date":"2010-08-04T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joeclarksblog.wordpress.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T22:15:10","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am semi-retired. One of my financial advisors told me that I am a &#8220;hybrid retiree,&#8221; a person still working on their own terms whenever they want.\u00a0 My late wife and I created our publishing company in 2007 and the house is now approaching 100 titles in our catalog. Please visit <a href=\"http:\/\/bluewaterpress.com\/\">BluewaterPress LLC<\/a> to peruse the books currently featured.<\/p>\n<p>I have somewhere north of 12,000 flight hours; about 1,500 hours flying attack jets in the Navy; 6,000 hours as a flight instructor and check airman; and about 2,000 in the best of all airplanes &#8211; taildraggers!<\/p>\n<p>Obviously, I am big on books and teaching flight. I now own and operate a flying company, Av Ed Consulting LLC, which I use primarily to teach pilots how to fly taildraggers. For more information, please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/tailwheelcfi.com\">https:\/\/tailwheelcfi.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can find some of my favorite aviation textbooks <a href=\"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?page_id=5481\">here<\/a>. For reading about flight and flying, <a href=\"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?page_id=5477\">check out this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow me on Twitter &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeClarksblog\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeClarksblog<\/a>.\u00a0 You may also email me at <a href=\"mailto:joe@bluewaterpress.com\">joe@bluewaterpress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am semi-retired. One of my financial advisors told me that I am a &#8220;hybrid retiree,&#8221; a person still working on their own terms whenever they want.\u00a0 My late wife and I created our publishing company in 2007 and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/?page_id=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6024,"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/6024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joeclarksblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}