{"id":8,"name":"Thomas","url":"","description":"Thomas is a retired IT professional, who lives alone with his golden retriever Ziggy Stardust in a small townhouse in a small town in the southern half of Sweden. He has two grown-up kids and at least five grandkids \u2013 \"as far as I know\".\r\n\r\n\r\nThomas enjoys daily long walks with Ziggy in the forests around town, he loves cooking for his guests, and he likes to make things with his hands. He says he loves good food, good wine, people who smile and make him smile.\r\n\r\nHaving spent most of his life developing things, methods and organizations, he's passionately interested in all kinds of technology, natural science, politics,... anything that raises a problem, whether it can be solved or not. Consequently, he is consistently short of time.\r\n\r\nWhile he was professionally active, he lived in San Francisco a few years, working as software engineer down in Silicon Valley. He claims that he did leave his heart in San Francisco, and is constantly planning to go back and pick it up. Quoting Hoagy Carmichael's Hong Kong Blues, he says \"... every time I try to leave, sweet opium won't let me fly away... ...i.e. my opium is Sweden, my kids, my dog, my friends, my forest,... you know, I'm Swedish.\"","link":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/author\/thomas\/","slug":"thomas","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f547e26bf06bfde82cf324f6a0368be?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f547e26bf06bfde82cf324f6a0368be?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2f547e26bf06bfde82cf324f6a0368be?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swedishfreak.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}