{"id":7,"date":"2011-07-27T15:50:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T15:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithsearch.org\/blogs\/rw\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2017-03-05T15:40:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-05T15:40:35","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About  Rick&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started out as a child, at a very early age. When I was young, my parents moved around a lot, but I always managed to find them again&#8230; My name is Wattman, like electricity. I&#8217;m a 100-watt kid \u2014 I&#8217;m very bright. That&#8217;s why my daddy calls me son. (<em>&#8220;I got a million of &#8217;em!&#8221;<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/headshot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-431 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Wattman\" width=\"207\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m the oldest child of an\u00a0oldest son and an\u00a0oldest daughter, and the oldest grandchild on both sides of the family. But I don&#8217;t feel old; in fact I&#8217;m occasionally surprised when I see photos of myself: Who is that old, balding guy? Perhaps my wife keeps me young\u2014<i>at heart<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I strive to have a childlike faith, trusting completely in my God, to provide and to guide, and to someday welcome me into His presence, not because of anything I have done, but because He lavished me with His grace and called me out of the pit of death and despair into the Kingdom of His glorious light and hope.<\/p>\n<p>Read my personal <a href=\"\/blog\/?page_id=436\">faith story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started out as a child, at a very early age. When I was young, my parents moved around a lot, but I always managed to find them again&#8230; My name is Wattman, like electricity. I&#8217;m a 100-watt kid \u2014 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/about-me\/\">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":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wattmans.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}