{"id":100,"date":"2023-01-20T13:57:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T13:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:48:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:48:54","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/?page_id=100","title":{"rendered":"About the Author"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"726\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-726x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-102 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-726x1024.jpg 726w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-768x1083.jpg 768w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-1089x1536.jpg 1089w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-1452x2048.jpg 1452w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-2000x2821.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/headshot-scaled.jpg 1815w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 726px) 100vw, 726px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Favorite Quote: &#8220;Speak softly and carry a big stick.&#8221; &#8211; Theodore Roosevelt<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jared Vermeulen was born and raised in the blue-collar fishing town of Jupiter, Florida where he still resides. Jared grew up with a background in construction and was originally working towards becoming an industrial design engineer when he was told about the fulfilling career of firefighting. He has not looked back since. Jared finished his technical training and an emergency medical degree with PBCC and was hired with the City of Boca Raton as a firefighter in 2007. He now holds multiple state certifications in technical rescue and hazardous materials mitigation and has been serving as a fire officer for over 10 years. Jared has the privilege and challenge of raising two wild kids with the help of his beautiful and patient wife. On his off time, Jared enjoys everything life has to give from hang gliding, snowboarding, and surfing to hunting alligators. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favorite Quote: &#8220;Speak softly and carry a big stick.&#8221; &#8211; Theodore Roosevelt Jared Vermeulen was born and raised in the blue-collar fishing town of Jupiter, Florida where he still resides. Jared grew up with a background in construction and was originally working towards becoming an industrial design engineer when he was told about the fulfilling &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/?page_id=100\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About the Author&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfireofficer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}