{"id":5,"date":"2011-11-02T23:56:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2015-11-24T22:58:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-24T12:58:41","slug":"about-this-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonshanks.com\/about-this-site\/","title":{"rendered":"about this site"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome, and thanks for landing your virtual surfboard on my personal island of the interwebs!<\/p>\n

This little space has morphed over the years, but try as I might to make a simple self-promotional piece (nah!) or some other uni-directional venture, it always ends up being a crazy collection of cornucopia. Sure I’ve got just about every other trendy social presence you can shake a trackpad at (my day job), but it’s nice to maintain a malleable sand pit of your very own. Resist the cookie-cutter homogeny of major social network presences I say \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So what should you expect here?<\/h3>\n

Updates on my musical activities<\/h4>\n

I gig, compose, and plan to teach again (all sporadically) but I feel this is on a slow upwards trajectory in my life at present. I’ve played saxophone on and off for 33 years but I began (and continue) as a multi-instrumentalist at my core. This is probably born of being:<\/p>\n