{"id":2,"date":"2009-01-05T20:40:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T04:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kellyrob99.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2009-02-10T22:53:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T07:53:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kellyrob99.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a software developer working primarily with Java. I&#8217;m also interested in other languages that run on the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Java Virtual Machine\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Java_Virtual_Machine\">JVM<\/a> and have become a big fan of Groovy and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Grails (framework)\" rel=\"homepage\" href=\"http:\/\/grails.org\">Grails<\/a>.  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