{"id":6,"date":"2018-09-11T17:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/?p=6"},"modified":"2018-09-11T17:49:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T17:49:25","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/09\/11\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, my name is Norm Beange. You might be wondering how to pronounce my last name &#8211; pretend there&#8217;s no &#8216;e&#8217; at the end and pronounce it like &#8220;Benj&#8221; in &#8220;Benjamin.&#8221; I&#8217;m 71 (I think that&#8217;s the definition of &#8220;mature student&#8221;) and my wife and I have 3 adult children (our eldest son was killed in an automobile accident in 2004) and 6 grandchildren!<\/p>\n<p>I own and manage a Toronto-based manufacturing company that produces highly customized marketing and consumer that has about 65 employees. It fits that my Myers-Briggs personality type is &#8220;Entrepreneur.&#8221; <span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #333333;cursor: text;font-family: 'Libre Franklin','Helvetica Neue',helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: normal;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px\">My spiritual gift is exhortation and my love language is affirmation so m<\/span>y goal in taking this program is to gain more knowledge to write a book about leadership development in the local church and to have the academic credibility to do so.<\/p>\n<p>My main hobby is reading; I read mostly non-fiction on sociology, human behavior and leadership. I look forward to journeying with all of you in this online world of education \u2026 it&#8217;s certainly going to be a learning experience for me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, my name is Norm Beange. You might be wondering how to pronounce my last name &#8211; pretend there&#8217;s no &#8216;e&#8217; at the end and pronounce it like &#8220;Benj&#8221; in &#8220;Benjamin.&#8221; I&#8217;m 71 (I think that&#8217;s the definition of &#8220;mature student&#8221;) and my wife and I have 3 adult children (our eldest son was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/2018\/09\/11\/introduction\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Introduction&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":361,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twu-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/361"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/create.twu.ca\/norm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}