{"id":10,"date":"2016-01-21T16:14:52","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/?page_id=10"},"modified":"2025-04-03T16:57:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T16:57:19","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is James Kates. I have played the trumpet (more recently cornet) since fifth grade. I have been playing for more than 50 years. You can do the math.<\/p>\n<p>I have played in school concert bands, college jazz bands, pick-up combos, church ensembles, a weekend dance band, and numerous community concert bands in Wisconsin and Michigan. I love listening to many kinds of music, including grand opera and straight-ahead jazz. And Dutchmen-style polka. My tastes are eclectic, to say the least.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t played music for money since 1980. I retired in 2024 from my job as a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. From 1980 to 2009, I was a newspaper reporter and editor in Michigan (Saginaw and Lansing), Milwaukee and Philadelphia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is James Kates. I have played the trumpet (more recently cornet) since fifth grade. I have been playing for more than 50 years. You can do the math. I have played in school concert bands, college jazz bands, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/about-me\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-10","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/imperfectpitch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}