{"id":330,"date":"2003-10-07T11:59:01","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=330"},"modified":"2003-10-07T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2003-10-07T14:59:01","slug":"heroes-and-coincidences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Heroes and coincidences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>O<\/span>ne of my greatest heroes is the author\/programmer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\">Jeff Duntemann<\/a>. Back in the days, one of his books and a disk with Borland TP 3.0 paved the road to my programming career.\n<\/p>\n<p>I had a couple of conversations with JD about RoundAbout, earlier this year. I haven&#8217;t been able to work too much on it. Personal business and other stuff basically sidetracked most of my work on the e-mailer. But the conversation, rather, e-mail exchange, between us was surreal. The humble hero and the admiring programmer. It&#8217;s a strange world: I mean, <em>Jeff Duntemann<\/em>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, in my hunt for typical Dutch scenes I ended up back at JD&#8217;s site. Apparantly in 2002, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/june2002.htm\">he visited the city<\/a> I used to live in <em>three years<\/em> ago (scroll down to June 21st). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duntemann.com\/Deventer.jpg\">Deventer<\/a>. Jeff, if you read this, I&#8217;m pretty sure <a href=\"http:\/\/hoogervorst.dyndns.org\/~alfons\/weblog\">Alfons<\/a> would be willing to show you around, next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my greatest heroes is the author\/programmer Jeff Duntemann. Back in the days, one of his books and a disk with Borland TP 3.0 paved the road to my programming career. I had a couple of conversations with JD &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=330\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}