{"id":7,"date":"2020-04-29T22:12:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-10-25T21:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T21:44:45","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi and thanks for visiting! Back many years ago in grad school, I started my own website out of an interest to learn about HTML and web design. It soon became my outlet to share my favorite pictures and other interests and I&#8217;ve kept it going to the current day&#8212;-finally giving it a little format update in recent years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As for a little history about me, I am originally from Mississippi where I studied anthropology and French at the University of Southern Mississippi. During that time, I got involved in helping support the international students at the college through a campus Christian organization. Eventually, I became an exchange student myself as I studied a semester abroad in France. All these experiences of cross-cultural adjustment had a big impact on my future. After completing  a master&#8217;s in anthropology at McGill University in Montreal, I ended up relocating to Atlanta in 1999 to work in refugee resettlement, welcoming newly arriving families through non-profit immigrant organizations World Relief and Inspiritus. I have now lived in the Atlanta metro area for more than twenty-five years and have centered most of my career, church, and personal life within the refugee community there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find more about my studies and community on my site, but the main focus is on currently my other hobbies and interests. I love to get the chance to travel and have maintained a particular interest in France and French culture. I am a sci-fi geek, especially of certain long-running TV shows, and I also like listening to a wide variety of music. My thoughts and comments on a lot of these can be found here. Hope you enjoy&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi and thanks for visiting! Back many years ago in grad school, I started my own website out of an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidredd.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}