{"id":3744,"date":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T16:08:28","slug":"matt-major-life-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/?p=3744","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Major Life Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154724\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-1024x683.png?resize=604%2C403&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes, so I\u2019m just going to lay it out: <strong>I\u2019ve made an offer to buy Ryan Phelan and Stewart Brand\u2019s houseboat <em>Mirene<\/em>.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">People say \u201cthe two happiest days of a boaters life is when you buy the boat and sell the boat\u201d but <strong>I\u2019m not always the best at following advice<\/strong>, so I\u2019m going all-in on this <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/11\/08\/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat\/\">cute little tuggy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Anybody who\u2019s founded a company and had to find good stewards knows that no one will love a thing quite like the original owner, but sometimes you can find the perfect person to carry the torch. I was happy to take on and upgrade John Mayer\u2019s EarthRoamer for about five years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154725\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-1-1024x768.png?resize=604%2C453&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154726\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-2-1024x768.png?resize=604%2C453&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then I passed it on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustinyellin.com\/\">Dustin Yellin, trading for some of his art<\/a>. But without a high-maintenance means of conveyance, I\u2019ve felt a hole in my heart and really boxed in and constrained. So from land, to the sea!<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/11\/08\/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-tugboat\/\">SF Standard says<\/a> \u201cThe kitchen table may be where Otis Redding wrote \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rTVjnBo96Ug\">(Sittin\u2019 on) The Dock of the Bay<\/a>.\u201d I hope do a lot of blogging there. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-154734\" height=\"403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ma.tt\/files\/2026\/09\/image-3-1024x683.png?resize=604%2C403&amp;quality=80&amp;ssl=1\" width=\"604\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/folklore.org\/Real_Artists_Ship.html\">Real artists ship<\/a>, right? <a href=\"https:\/\/press.stripe.com\/maintenance-part-one\">Longevity is all about maintenance<\/a>, and I\u2019m looking forward to all the lessons <em>Mirene<\/em> and the ocean will teach as we navigate the weather of the coming years. If the offer is accepted, I have a lot to learn from Ryan and Stewart about what\u2019s next.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know everyone has been waiting to hear what\u2019s been going on behind the scenes,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-1024x683-TfvZl2.jpg?fit=604%2C403&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicknewsnigeria.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}