{"id":11,"date":"2025-07-03T08:26:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T08:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2025-08-10T10:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T15:19:33","slug":"a-brief-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/a-brief-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"A brief introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"496\" src=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irkutsk_close.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12\" srcset=\"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irkutsk_close.jpg 640w, https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/irkutsk_close-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>My name is Howell Gibbens and I am running for Fairhope City Council Place 4. I was born in New Orleans in 1965; my parents met at LSU. We moved to Fairhope in 1978, and into our current house in the Fruit and Nut in 1980. Since then, I\u2019ve had a long and successful career as a motion picture sound designer; I rode an R1200GS motorcycle solo from Tokyo to London via Rome; and I spent the last few years working as a manual machinist at Marine Exhaust Systems of Alabama on Nichols. As of May 2024, I\u2019ve been a stay-at-home dad. My wife, Olga, works in Mobile doing IT. We attend St. Lawrence Catholic Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more Comment-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We moved to Fairhope in 1978, and into our current house in the Fruit and Nut in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howellgibbens.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}