{"id":16592,"date":"2024-12-11T14:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtbtours.ro\/en\/?page_id=16592"},"modified":"2024-12-11T14:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:57:35","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My name is <strong>Horia M\u0103ru\u0219c\u0103<\/strong>. Born in a mountain city, Sibiu, I wandered the Carpathian trails from an early age, on foot and on skis in the beginning, and on the bike later on. The passion for mountain activities lead to a professional mountain guide license in 1998, being a member of the Romanian Mountain Guides Association (RMGA) ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Starting with 2018 I am also a MIAS qualified Level 1 and 2 mtb guide. From 2022 I am involved in the <strong>RIMS<\/strong> Initiative, part of the wider <a href=\"https:\/\/europeanbikeguides.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>EO-MTBing &#8211; European Organization of Mountain Bike Instructor-Guides<\/strong><\/em> <\/a>movement.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/wp-content\/gallery\/marcus-friends-carpathian-peaks-2024\/IMG_20240902_153227_1600.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20240902_153227_1600\">Following journalism and communication studies at Bucharest University, I focused initially on video production and anthropology documentary film-making, and also on photography, graphic and web design.<\/p>\n<p>Since early 2000 I am free-lancing, alternating&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marusca.ro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>photo, video and design projects<\/strong><\/a> with trekking tours in the Carpathians, while doing a lot of mountain biking as a hobby. <strong>mtbtours.ro<\/strong> started as a biker&#8217;s blog and then gradually changed into a web platform for publishing and promoting my mountain bike tours. I am fluent in English, good at French and I have a basic grasp of German.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Horia M\u0103ru\u0219c\u0103. Born in a mountain city, Sibiu, I wandered the Carpathian trails from an early age, on foot and on skis in the beginning, and on the bike later on. The passion for mountain activities lead to a professional mountain guide license in 1998, being a member of the Romanian Mountain&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/about-me\/\" title=\"Read About me\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16594,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"tags":[457,456,328],"class_list":["post-16592","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-eo-mtbing","tag-horia-marusca","tag-mtb-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16598,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16592\/revisions\/16598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dev.mtbtours.ro\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}