{"id":207,"date":"2018-10-09T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/?p=207"},"modified":"2018-10-15T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T16:38:11","slug":"staff-qa-chris-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/10\/09\/staff-qa-chris-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Q&amp;A: Chris Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>How long have you been at Oregon State?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I came in 2006, so that\u2019s getting close to 12 years ago. I packed a U-haul and moved from Washington, where I was working at Eastern Washington University. I also worked at The Heart Institute in Spokane. Before that, I was in New Mexico, which is where I grew up.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_208\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-208\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0322-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0322-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0322-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_0322-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris loves photography. He says for awhile he had a &#8220;thing for puddles.&#8221;<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Were you always interested in technology?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a cartoonist and generally moved into art and technology just kind of found its way into my life. I still paint and make art in Photoshop and do other artsy stuff.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is your favorite part about your job?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The people and the variety.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What does your life look like outside work?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m a homebody. I love being at home because I can paint and hang out and make food.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_209\" class=\"wp-caption thumbnail alignnone\" style=\"width: 300px;\">\n    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-209\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_1038-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_1038-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_1038-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/3115\/files\/2018\/10\/IMG_1038-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n    <figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chris&#8217;s cat<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>What are your hobbies?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Art, guitar, reading, hanging out with my cat and just hanging out in general.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019re really into music. So what was the first concert you ever went to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first band I ever saw was called Level 42, and it wasn\u2019t until I was 19 or 20. I grew up in rural New Mexico, so to see a concert, it was a four-hour drive.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What was the last concert you\u2019ve been to?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I saw Foo Fighters a little while ago, that was cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How long have you been at Oregon State? I came in 2006, so that\u2019s getting close to 12 years ago. I packed a U-haul and moved from Washington, where I was working at Eastern Washington University. I also worked at The Heart Institute in Spokane. Before that, I was in New Mexico, which is where&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/2018\/10\/09\/staff-qa-chris-smith\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[603042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/collegeofforestry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}