{"id":2,"date":"2010-11-03T19:32:45","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T00:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-02-09T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T00:15:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Bigreb"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>&#8230; I am 82 years old\u2026 Come from a Southern heritage and I am proud of it\u2026\u00a0 The slogan for my site, www.bigrebsworld@gmail.com, is <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>&#8220;Southern Pride NOT Hatred&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>My family, the Gray&#8217;s, Sweet&#8217;s, Catron&#8217;s and Harmon&#8217;s settled in the Appalations (Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee) in the early 1700&#8217;s&#8230; My great great grandfather (John Tevis Gray) served in the 37<sup>th<\/sup> Virginia (the Stonewall Brigade)&#8230; The Sweet&#8217;s (Alexander, Moses and Thomas) served in the Virginia Militia during the years of the American Revolution&#8230; They were farmers, NOT slave owners. Over my working years I spent about 15 in the newspaper and publishing business\u2026 I have been a Chamber of Commerce Manager, Chief Administrative Assistant to California Assemblyman Marty G. Martinez\u2026 Served on two Montebello City Commissions including several years on the 51<sup>st<\/sup> Assembly Crime Commission\u2026 I have been a reserve police officer as well as a reserve fireman both in the city and county where I lived\u2026 I am a Conservative\/ Libertarian&#8230; I believe in less government and more individual responsibility\u2026 One of my favorite sayings is <strong><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u201cyour rights begin and end at my nose and toes\u201d<\/span>\u2026<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0I am not afraid to speak my mind or voice my point of view\u2026<\/h3>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Remember,<\/span> &#8220;An <em>ARMED<\/em> society, is a <em>FREE<\/em> society&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4>I can be contacted directly at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:bigreb@bigreb.com\">bigreb@ix.netcom.com<\/a> &#8230; Feel free to write me and let me know what is on your mind\u2026<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; I am 82 years old\u2026 Come from a Southern heritage and I am proud of it\u2026\u00a0 The slogan for my site, www.bigrebsworld@gmail.com, is &#8220;Southern Pride NOT Hatred&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0My family, the Gray&#8217;s, Sweet&#8217;s, Catron&#8217;s and Harmon&#8217;s settled in the Appalations (Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee) in the early 1700&#8217;s&#8230; My great great grandfather (John Tevis Gray) served in [&hellip;]<\/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-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1274,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}