{"id":2,"date":"2006-12-07T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-11-26T15:31:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T19:31:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About this Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-97524\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"White woman with blue hair and blue catseye glasses, smiling. She wears a blue t-shirt under a black blazer and an octopus necklace.\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Stephanie-Bryant-Headshot-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is\u00c2\u00a0a personal blog,\u00c2\u00a0mostly from Stephanie Bryant (mortaine), but\u00c2\u00a0with a few guest contributors who\u00c2\u00a0are close to me.<\/p>\n<p>I am a 40-something Agile coach, game creator, knitter, and author, living in Las Vegas, Nevada. I&#8217;m married, no kids. I love my friends (who live both near and far) and my family (who all live far!)<\/p>\n<h2>Current Projects and Hobbies<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dexposure.com\/envoy\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-96960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/wheretofindme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>No Man&#8217;s Sky civilization: <a href=\"http:\/\/ra_Collective\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Luminumbra Collective<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wiki editing in general for Fandom<\/li>\n<li>Working at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.praecipio.com\">Praecipio<\/a> as an Agile consultant.<\/li>\n<li>Playing bass in a punk rock band (currently on hiatus).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/games-ive-written\/\">Writing various games<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Including: 200-word RPG Winner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/portfolio\/200-word-game-escape-pod-one-launching\/\">Escape Pod One Launching<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Social Media Policy<\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;m on Facebook, Mastodon, and lots of other sites and networks, usually as mortaine. 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