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[Editor\u2019s pre-note: This is the first in what I hope will be three interviews with the surveyors who have also been presidents of the State\u2019s CLSA that are from or have been a part of the Central Coast Chapter of CLSA. The purpose of these interviews is to inspire the younger surveyors to be active in the profession. In these interviews you will see that these surveyors did not plan on being the president of the Professional Association representing land surveyors in the State of California, but because of their belief in the profession they rose to that stature. All three have ended up improving the profession and thus the land surveying professionals in the State of California.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This first interview is with Ken Fargen, who has been surveying on the Central Coast for over 50 years. Later this year we will publish an interview with Michael McGee, who many surveyors on the Central Coast have worked with, especially in the early years of using GPS. We hope to follow up with the third local past president of CLSA and ask for your support to find and notify that person that they need to sit for an interview.<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[Editor\u2019s note: Many of you may know Ken Fargen as owner of Fargen Surveys in Santa Maria and as the chef at the annual summer barbecues the chapter puts on. Ken has served in all the officer positions of the Chapter including as its president in 1987 as well as chair for a number of committees over the years. He has been heavily involved with the State CLSA and was president of the State CLSA in 1991. Ken has been a supporter and a friend to many of the local surveyors and is semi-retired from the business, with his son, Marshall, now running the company.]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And now the Interview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> Ken, where did you grow up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> I grew up all over the western United States. My dad was a mechanic, but he was somewhat of a gypsy. So, I’ve lived in Oildale, California; Chico, California; Gridley, California; Newport, Oregon; Ontario, Oregon. I was born in Cedar City, Utah. We lived in Henderson, Nevada; and then Fresno for three years; also, Yuba City. I got around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> You went to high school in Gridley, in the valley?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Yes, it’s between Sacramento and Chico, right on Highway 99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What sort of interests did you have growing up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Ken:<\/strong> Sports were my main interest. I was a late bloomer. I was forced to go to my senior prom by two  girls in the class, who wanted to make sure that everybody in the senior class was going to the senior prom, so they coerced me into going. Other than sports I didn’t really have any interests. I was interested in cars, but I was poor, so my first automobile was a Buick station wagon that my dad brought home. It wasn’t quite the cool car; Banana yellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran around with a few guys and tried to stay out of mischief. I was involved in sports all the time: football, tennis, basketball; either through church or through high school. I was raised Mormon and they had their own youth activities at high school level, football, tennis, basketball. Catholics had CYO or something and played church baseball with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> After high school what did you do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Well, I went to junior college at Yuba Junior College. Two years there. Then I transferred to Butte Junior College; outside of Chico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What were you thinking your major would be?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> When I left high school I had mechanical drafting and I thought a little bit about architecture. I signed up for junior college for pre-architecture and then found out how much I hated sitting at the drafting table. At Butte, I had a two-unit speech class that I hated and I dropped it without thinking and it took me below the required 12 units for military draft. One month after I dropped that class, I had a draft notice. That was in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I got drafted into the Army on St. Patrick’s Day in 1970, March 17th and I got to wear green for two years. After I went through basic training there were like six or eight of us in basic training that didn’t get orders. Most of the people that left basic training had orders for infantry or artillery. Those six or eight of us sat around for a week after basic training to get orders and I got orders to go to Fort Riley, Kansas as a civilian-acquired skill; a carpenter. I didn’t have to go to Individual Advanced Training. I think I was sent as a carpenter because when I got my draft notice, I had to list all my skills. I had several jobs: truck driver, a forklift operator, a painter, carpenter, roofer, as a van and storage mover. I worked in agriculture, so I had some heavy equipment experience. When they saw that, they sent me to Fort Riley as a carpenter. Everybody there was skilled at something. I thought we would be building a whole bunch of stuff there. Instead, they sent us all to the artillery. It’s typical army. So I was at Fort Riley, Kansas in the artillery, giving me stateside duty. I was a Specialist Two in charge of a Howitzer, armored personnel carrier and 13 guys. Being in charge of these soldiers meant I had to be at least a non-commissioned officer, so they made me an acting corporal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fort Riley is just outside Manhattan, Kansas home of Kansas State. At the time we were treated as third-class citizens if you went to town and on the base, there was a lot of racial tension.  It got to the point where I really got tired of this stateside duty and I volunteered for Vietnam. What I didn’t realize at the time was that I was starting to lose my hearing being in the artillery.  We wore hearing protection in Kansas when we would shoot, which was only like once a year. In Vietnam, you’d be shooting day and night and we never had the hearing protection. I had six guns shooting 18 rounds each. as fast and you could shoot them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What did you do when you got back from Vietnam?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> I went down and signed up for unemployment and during the interview they saw I had some college experience, so they sent me to Butte County Public Works. At the interview with Public Works, they saw I had some math background. So, they thought I would be great on the survey crew. And that’s how I found out about surveying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> You didn’t do any surveying as part of the artillery?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> No, I didn’t even know there were such things in artillery until I went to Fresno State, and I met all those guys that surveyed for artillery in the army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> So how long were you at Public Works before you went to Fresno State?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> I was there about 9 months; I started at Fresno State in the Fall of 1972. I went in there with two and a half years of credits and a lot of them were not usable. Since I did have some experience in surveying, I became a TA for Professor Kulhan’s basic surveying class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What did you think of your experience going to Fresno State?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> The photogrammetry really interested me, but there again, I didn’t want to sit at a machine eight hours a day. I had a hard time with one of the instructors because he would face the blackboard and talk with a thick accent and faced away from me. That made it hard for me with me already losing my hearing. One thing college taught me was how to learn. I picked up early that I don’t learn by listening to somebody. I learn by doing it. If I have to write down everything they say, then I can go back to that. I’m a very hands-on person. The field stuff was picked up right away working for Butte County. I had a great time in Fresno. Part of that was probably too much fun. But the education part I thought was very good for that time. I learned where to go to get the information. Some of the other classes I enjoyed much more than the surveying classes. I enjoyed the map interpretation and the photo interpretation classes. I thought that professor did a great job. Calculus was tough for me, as it took three semesters to get through the two semesters of calculus. There were a lot of other classes I enjoyed in college. I met my wife Kathy there and I would sit in on some of her classes that were totally unrelated to my major  and enjoyed them. So overall, it was a great experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What was your next move after you graduated from Fresno?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> I went to work in Sonora. Well, I had done two summers in Sonora working for the Tuolumne County Engineer\u2019s Office. Anyway, one summer I did a research project for them, researching the right-of-way, Highway 108, going all the way back to when Fremont was around. I spent a lot of time in the Tuolumne County Courthouse in their archives department down in the basement of an old stone building. To me, that was fun and very interesting. In fact, I ended up turning that into my senior project, which was a great senior project. While doing that I ended up with contacts with local surveyors and engineers up in that area. When I graduated this one engineer approached me about coming to work for him because he wanted to go back to Columbia College and get some classes on surveying. And he was already a registered engineer, but he wanted to augment his business. And he had a small office in the town of Twain Harte, so I got an apartment in Tuolumne and worked for this guy in Twain Harte. He had HP 3805 distance meter he had sprung for. That was where I got experience in a one-man survey crew. I would turn the angles, take the instrument off, put the distance meter on, shoot the distances, and then go move your tripods and the whole bit. That was 1975. It turned out what he had promised me for the pay and what I was getting were quite far apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, in the fall, I went back to the campus to check on what job opportunities were out there. I heard that this guy in Santa Maria, California looking for somebody. I came to Santa Maria and interviewed with Mike Welch and he hired me on the spot. That started my career with Welch Surveys, where I worked for almost 6 years. Mike was a very good surveyor, we were doing a lot of work at that time, but I had some issues with how Mike ran the business. He was quick to promise clients that he would get a crew out to a job, without letting the office know that he had made that promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While I was working for Mike, I became licensed in 1979. I didn’t pass the first time I took the exam. That first exam had a lot of number crunching and calculations. The second time I took it, the test had more essay type questions, asking how you would solve a problem. I saw others doing a lot of calculations and I answered the questions by saying what I would do to solve the problem.  I took the test and until I got the letter, I had forgotten all about it as I was wrapped up in the family and at work we were doing 60 hour weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It got to a point at Welch Surveys where there was a lot of tension in the office and I was having to deal with a lot of angry clients wondering what was going on. There were a lot of unhappy people working there and I was one of them so in 1981 I quit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> So, is that when you started Fargen Surveys?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Well, not exactly. When I quit, I knew I would get a job. When I got into surveying, I knew it was my life’s calling, and I knew I could survey. A guy at Penfield and Smith, really a nice guy, called me the day after I left and wanted me to work for them. However, that would be in Santa Barbara, and I didn’t want to drive that far to go to work. A few days later, I was in my garage building cabinets when Joe Waters drove up. He asked, “What are you doing?”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, “Building cabinets”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, “Well, you want to come work for me?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, “No, I don’t want to commute to Santa Barbara”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, “Well, how about doing a couple jobs for me independently”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, “Well, I don’t have any equipment”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He went out to his car and pulled out a Wild  T16, tripod, rod, and a few other things. and gave me two manila folders. Both the jobs were in Paso Robles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe said, “Can you do these for me and send me a bill for the work.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, “What do I owe you for the equipment?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said, “Nothing.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is how Fargen Surveys started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> Who was your first employee?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Geoff Villegas was my first employee. He came over from Welch Surveys and is still here at Fargen Surveys. My second employee was Gary Cann also coming from Welch Surveys and presently retired from Fargen Surveys. Gary’s is the best I’ve ever seen at mapping and calculations and Geoff was fantastic in the field. They’re both great employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> Are there any surveyors that you have run across that left an impression?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ken:<\/strong> There were some that I didn’t know personally. One was F.F. Flournoy (Pictured left). All his work that I’ve ever come across has been fantastic. He had lines going thousands of feet over Hill and Dale, and it’s within half a foot for GPS measurements. Thousands of feet on these old Rancho lines and he always set like a three-inch pipe with a screw on brass cap with all the information in the cap. The other one, U.S. Grant. I found his monuments out in Cuyama or all over, you know, there again, fantastic. I, like most surveyors, are influenced by the reputation of other surveyors when thinking about the strength of a survey.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Parallax:<\/strong> When did you get involved in CLSA?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> During my first year at Fresno State. I don’t remember if I was an officer, but I was actively involved. I helped put together the conferences and did a lot for the state conferences as well as the Fresno conference. I told other students at the time it’s important to make these contacts because these are the people you’re going to be working around the rest of your life. I’m not much of a joiner or very social, but I knew it was important to make those contacts and find out who you’re going to be working for, who you’re going to be working with. And that’s held up over my whole career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> When did you start to become involved at the State level?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Well, I stayed active when I moved to the coast with the Central Coast chapter. It started when I was with Mike. He and I put together the first barbecue in probably ’76 or ’77. I think six people showed up. It was at Waller Park, and we had hot dogs and hamburgers. Ever since then I’ve been active in the chapter. The other impetus to go statewide was Susan Jensen. She forced me to break out of my shell and forced me to be a chapter representative at the State level and I enjoyed it. I think Susan submitted my name in to run for an officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> How did you like that, of going through the officer ranks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> I enjoyed it. I didn’t like politics or backstabbing. I felt like I was giving back to the profession as much as I was getting out of a profession until I became president. When I was president, the Land Surveyor on the Board of Registration quit or resigned. This ended up taking most of my term was dealing with filling that position. I don’t remember who the LS member that left, but I would get these phone calls from Governor Deukmejian’s offices, I never got to talk to the governor, but someone from his office would say, you’re the president of the association, we’re looking for a surveyor that fits certain criteria for the board of registration and who does your association want. I went to the board of CLSA and we would put out a request for surveyors that met the criteria. We narrowed it down to three or four and we did interviews with them. This all took a lot of time and energy from the association. Then we submitted the name that we thought was best for the position and they picked somebody else. They picked someone unknown to anybody that was on the board. They picked someone that was not involved with CLSA. That was frustrating for me. That was a tough year. That along with preparing and delivering the president’s message at conferences and other events was tough. I’m not a public speaker, so I did not enjoy that. I did it when I had to. That along with wearing suits and ties as I thought it was important to represent the profession. Of course, we also had the argument of records of surveys, which is still going on to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What have you enjoyed about owning your surveying business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> It affords me the opportunity to do other things, like coaching and family involvement. And there was an old surveyor that once told me, he said, \u201cyou’ll never get rich from surveying, but it affords you the opportunities to do other things\u201d and it has. We’ve made some good investments and bought some properties I wouldn’t have been able to if I didn’t have the cash flow going through the company. So, it’s been great in that respect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> How about frustrations of owning your own business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Well, employees, insurance, and phone calls. I’m a realist and I know that you can’t have a business without the phone. I always returned phone calls, even when I didn’t want to. I didn’t want to get a reputation of not being dependable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What was the type of work that you liked to do and what was the type of work that was most beneficial for the company? Are they the same?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Not really. I really enjoyed the boundary surveys. And I enjoyed mostly the research which I still do for Marshall. But at the same time, I know from working at Mike’s that the real money is in construction. So about 80% of our business has been construction. When you’re doing 120 curb points a day, day after day, on subdivisions, which is what the majority of our work is in, that can get tedious. Geoff and I did that for years. Then there were some interesting jobs that just came out of the blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We did a survey on a building at Vandenberg called V-19. And it was supposed to be where the space shuttle came back and landed at Vandenberg. And they were going to roll this space shuttle into building V-19. So, the Air Force came to us and said, \u201cThe building’s built, but we need to know the X, Y, and Z of every platform edge inside the building. Because when we put the shuttle in there, if you drop a platform or an accordion out of platform or fold a platform, and when it goes out, it cannot hit the shuttle and damage it.\u201d There turned out to be like 1,700 points. People don’t realize that the top of the tail of the shuttle when it’s sitting on the ground is 6 stories up. So we’re six stories up trying to get the X, Y, and Z on a platform edge that’s extended. There were catwalks and staircases to get to all on the platforms but when you’re up 6 stories in the air on the leading edge of a platform and there is nothing but concrete below, it keeps you on your toes. That was really interesting. When it was all said and done, we sent the information in. Didn’t hear another word about it for about four months. Then we got a call that said, \u201cWe are questioning three of your points.\u201d I asked  \u201chow would they know?\u201d He said, \u201cWell, they’re like an eighth of an inch off of the three other studies we’ve had done on this.\u201d And I said, “Well, I’d use the three other studies if they all agree”. I wasn’t really that flippant. I said I would review information and get back to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We had another one at Vandenberg. It was our first foray into GPS at Vandenberg. We had to rent equipment, set the control, and the guys went out, set the control and everything during the daylight. The window of opportunity for collecting GPS data at that time was like 10pm to 4am or something like that. Michael McGee helped us with this one. We sent the guys out and one of the control points that they were going to occupy was within 60 feet of a chain link fence that was like a secret facility. The crew had no idea that they weren’t allowed within 60 feet of the fence. One of our guys apparently tripped an alarm and the Vandenberg police in their black pajamas and M16s rounded everybody up and left all that equipment out there still set up. I started getting phone calls from local military police all the way up to Department of Defense in San Francisco. I also got a six- or eight-page report for information on how I was going to discipline them. One of the bottom lines of that report was \u201csummary execution\u201d. The next morning they release them all after interviewing them, George Marchenko, Geoff Villegas, Gary Cann and Tim Fox. McGee wasn’t out there at that time, so he was safe. The paperwork went on and on, the Corps of Engineers got involved. It was probably a week dealing with that. Then they ended up going back out and getting the information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What do you do to get away from thinking about the business?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Really, I can turn it off. I’ve been able to do that. I can compartmentalize everything. I have always had a lot of activities around me with the kids and the family. I coached softball for 16 or 18 years with both of my daughters\u2019 teams. I coached Marshall\u2019s teams in basketball, soccer, Little League and Babe Ruth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In later years because of my competitive nature, I got into jet ski racing. I did long distance enduro jet ski races for years, distances of 300 to 400 miles. I started doing that when I was about 45 and did that for quite a few years. We were competitive considering we were racing against pros. We raced in Baja, Mexico. We raced at Long Beach, the Colorado River, Lake Arrowhead, Lake Isabella. Once I was too old to continue doing that, I got into racing junk cars called crap cans, $500 cars. It has to meet all the safety requirements, but you could not have a car worth more than 500 bucks. We raced at Laguna Seca, Sonoma, and at Fallon Nevada – we were in a 24-hour race there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 In Fallon, well into that race during the middle of the night, it started snowing and at about 20 hours in, Marshall was driving at the time and spun off the road. They towed him back and in doing so tore the bottom of the radiator out, which ended our race. We loaded up the car, grabbed some breakfast on the way out of town and ran into more snow as we headed over Interstate 80 The race car was on a flatbed and I was towing a box trailer. It was 27 degrees when we hit the top of Donner Summit and we had 4 inches of snow on the vehicles. We just escaped putting chains on our four-wheel drives. We drove right behind a semi all the way down to Grass Valley, where there was still plenty of snow on the side of the highway. I did this racing for a few years, until I felt like I couldn’t get out of the car if I wrecked it. And I start thinking, what if I turn this over? How am I going to get out of here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> What advice might you give some young surveyors who are starting out in the profession?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken:<\/strong> Well, I used to do the school talks. What I always said was that you can do whatever you want in the profession. If you want to work outside, you can work outside. If you want to work inside, you can do that. Or you can do both. And you can do these giant interesting control surveys, or you can do boundary surveys for mom and pop. There are endless opportunities, especially for young people. I always recommend continuing education and getting licensed if that’s something you want to do. Some of the best surveyors I know never got licensed. They had no interest in doing that or in signing the maps. I used to talk to middle schoolers and high schoolers, one of the first questions I always got was \u201cHow much do you make?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 I said you can make as much as you want. Depends on whether you want to work your eight hours and go home or if you want to work your 10 or 12 hours to make money. You can choose where you want to work. I said as long as you’re good at what you’re doing, you can do it anywhere. If you want to travel the country and if you’re qualified, you can always work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parallax:<\/strong> Ken, Thanks so much for sitting down with me to discuss your professional life. It us a pleasure to hear about all of this from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Many of you may know Ken Fargen as owner of Fargen Surveys in Santa Maria and as the chef at the annual summer barbecues the chapter puts on. Ken has served in all the officer positions of the Chapter including as its president in 1987 as well as chair for a number of committees over the years. He has been heavily involved with the State CLSA and was president of the State CLSA in 1991. Ken has been a supporter and a friend to many of the local surveyors and is semi-retired from the business, with his son, Marshall, now running the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_ppma_block_editor_authors":"{\"authors\":[222],\"author_categories\":{\"222\":\"1\"},\"fallback_author_user\":\"11\",\"ppma_author_box_select\":\"none\",\"selected_authors\":[{\"id\":222,\"display_name\":\"Central.Coast.CLSA@gmail.com\",\"is_guest\":0,\"category_id\":\"1\"}]}"},"categories":[215],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[222],"class_list":["post-8484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7abWA-2cQ","authors":[{"term_id":222,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"central-coast-clsagmail-com","display_name":"Central.Coast.CLSA@gmail.com","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/827c6ac7772037fb6403d5eb0d13485e6824111551982d381fe5ed5c1bbf5c06?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bbqCrew.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8492,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8484\/revisions\/8492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8484"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=8484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}