{"id":37871,"date":"2016-06-23T11:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.com\/?p=37871"},"modified":"2017-05-11T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T14:08:11","slug":"uncommon-personalities-meet-randy-clinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-personalities-meet-randy-clinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Personalities: Meet Randy Clinton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-47857\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/RandyClinton.jpg\" alt=\"RandyClinton\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Randy Clinton &#8211; UncommonGoods Senior Data Analyst<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>My hometown\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nLivonia, Michigan<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m inspired by\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nStories of people succeeding through hard work: <a href=\"https:\/\/louisck.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Louis CK<\/a> changing his entire act, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Gates\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bill Gates<\/a> poking at a computer over the summer as a middle school student, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dennis_Rodman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dennis Rodman<\/a> running for an hour on a treadmill after games and any other example of people working hard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I would like someone (maybe me) to invent\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nAn earpiece that translates a language into your ear in real time. It\u2019d open global travel to a completely different experience for people who don\u2019t have the time to learn a new language before visiting a new place and change the relationship between medical and humanitarian mission personnel and the people being helped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I could meet anyone, living or not, I would choose\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monticello.org\/site\/jefferson\/thomas-jefferson-brief-biography\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Jefferson.<\/a> I\u2019d want to know when he thought the revolution would be won and what he expected the country to look like. Then I\u2019d give him an update on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/world-population\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> how things have been going for the past 200 years<\/a> and see where the conversation went from there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When I\u2019m not working, I\u2019m probably\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nWalking around someplace new and taking photos or trying to learn something.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most amazing thing I\u2019ve ever seen is\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nThe night sky with a full moon and dotted with stars far away from any Earthly light source that would pollute the sky. The moon was so bright it cast shadows on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If I won the lottery, I\u2019d\u2026<\/strong><br \/>\nCommission the building of a time machine\/sports car, go into the future, buy a sports almanac, travel back in time, and hand it to my old self. A sports almanac contains the scores and details about every game. Besides betting on just who wins, there\u2019s a ton of smaller bets on things like number of points scored in the game, who scores first, etc\u2026<br \/>\nIt\u2019d probably require a nuclear powered energy source but, in an effort to be environmentally friendly, I\u2019d want to explore using garbage instead.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0096874\/plotsummary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> I&#8217;ve seen this work before.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data Analyst Randy Clinton is probably one of the few people in America who has compelling ideas about both inside sports betting and international humanitarian aid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":188,"featured_media":47857,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[172,1170,246,1172],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37871"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57071,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37871\/revisions\/57071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}