{"id":6984,"date":"2026-01-08T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/?page_id=6984"},"modified":"2026-01-11T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T17:48:18","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/authorImage3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-134\" src=\"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/authorImage3-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"authorImage3\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Lyndon Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author of the seven volume fantasy series that begins with <i>Master of the Five Magics<\/i>. Each of these books is stand-alone and can be read in any order. <\/p>\n<p>He received a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and a PhD in elementary particle physics from the University of California. <\/p>\n<p>While at Caltech, he organized and led the effort lauded as the greatest college prank ever successfully executed &#8211; the card trick substitution at the 1961 Rose Bowl game that was broadcast on national television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyndon Hardy is a New York Times best-selling author of the seven volume fantasy series that begins with Master of the Five Magics. Each of these books is stand-alone and can be read in any order. He received a Bachelor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/bio\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6984","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6984"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6984\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alodar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}