{"id":16,"date":"2012-05-13T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T16:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2017-07-08T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:51:28","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17\" style=\"width: 286px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/about-me\/pouring-imagination\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png?fit=1001%2C1050&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1001,1050\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Pouring Imagination\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Inspired by Saul Steinberg&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png?fit=840%2C881&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-17 size-medium\" title=\"Pouring Imagination\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination-286x300.png?resize=286%2C300\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png?resize=286%2C300&amp;ssl=1 286w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png?resize=976%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 976w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Pouring-Imagination.png?w=1001&amp;ssl=1 1001w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inspired by Saul Steinberg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I\u2019m an electronic engineer who never ended up working as one. Instead, I developed my professional career in Telecoms and IT. In my spare time I enjoy drawing cartoons, listening to good music and music performance.<\/p>\n<p>Many\u00a0years ago, by sheer luck I found the valves\/tube DIY community and I discovered a new world. I could combine many of my skills and interests and foster a new passion and endless route to financial breakdown.<\/p>\n<p>Now I enjoy designing, building and testing music equipment, but above all: listening to a great LP whilst sat down on the sofa with a glass of single malt in my hand&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ale<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cCreativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that&#8217;s easy. What&#8217;s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that&#8217;s creativity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Charles Mingus)<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get in touch, just send me a note and will respond as soon as I get some time!:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-09.01.16.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5524\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/for-sale\/gyrator-pcb\/screen-shot-2016-05-01-at-09-01-16\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-09.01.16.png?fit=377%2C81&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"377,81\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"contact address\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-09.01.16.png?fit=377%2C81&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5524 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-01-at-09.01.16.png?resize=146%2C35\" alt=\"contact address\" width=\"146\" height=\"35\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m an electronic engineer who never ended up working as one. Instead, I developed my professional career in Telecoms and IT. In my spare time I enjoy drawing cartoons, listening to good music and music performance. Many\u00a0years ago, by sheer luck I found the valves\/tube DIY community and I discovered a new world. I could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-16","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2r2tK-g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}