{"id":2,"date":"2006-12-29T21:01:49","date_gmt":"2006-12-30T02:01:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2016-02-06T18:48:33","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T23:48:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Kurt Leucht"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em> Background: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I grew up in Central <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enjoyillinois.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois<\/a>, in a small town called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mackinawillinois.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mackinaw<\/a> (near <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peoria.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peoria<\/a>). I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deemack.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School<\/a> and did pretty good in Math, Science, and Art. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Illinois Central College<\/a> for two years while enrolled in the Pre-Engineering Program. I transferred to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mst.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri University of Science &amp; Technology)<\/a> in the <a href=\"http:\/\/ece.mst.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Electrical Engineering Program<\/a> where I spent four more years of school while <a href=\"http:\/\/career.mst.edu\/cooperativeeducation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">co-oping<\/a> half of the time in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myflorida.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">NASA<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/centers\/kennedy\/home\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> (where I currently work). I met my beautiful wife, <a href=\"..\/..\/sam\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samantha<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parkavenue.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Park Avenue Baptist Church<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.titusville.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Titusville<\/a>. We currently live in the small Space Coast town of Titusville. We have two wonderful boys.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/leuchtfamilyphoto.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-216\" title=\"Leucht Family Photo circa 2007\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/leuchtfamilyphoto.jpg\" alt=\"Leucht Family Photo circa 2007\" width=\"377\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Social Media:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kurtleucht\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kleucht\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/kurtleucht\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong>Misc:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leucht.com\/kurt\/\">Here is a bunch of stuff\u00a0that I have put on the internet for your enjoyment.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background: I grew up in Central Illinois, in a small town called Mackinaw (near Peoria). I went to Deer Creek-Mackinaw High School and did pretty good in Math, Science, and Art. I went to Illinois Central College for two years while enrolled in the Pre-Engineering Program. I transferred to the University of Missouri-Rolla (now Missouri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2356,"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/2356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leucht.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}