{"id":15407,"date":"2015-11-29T23:51:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T23:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/?p=15407"},"modified":"2022-01-10T21:41:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:41:28","slug":"jari-mattila-new-york-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/jari-mattila-new-york-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Jari Mattila &#8211; New York For Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-tf01lb-af97276da3636108f7ccf76cd88d6d89\">\n#top .avia-gallery.av-tf01lb-af97276da3636108f7ccf76cd88d6d89 .avia-gallery-thumb a{\nwidth:20%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-gallery av-tf01lb-af97276da3636108f7ccf76cd88d6d89 avia_animate_when_visible  avia-builder-el-0  avia-builder-el-no-sibling  deactivate_avia_lazyload avia-gallery-animate avia-gallery-1'  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class='avia-gallery-thumb'> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-1030x616.jpg\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-1030x616.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-705x421.jpg 705w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-450x269.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila.jpg 1221w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1030px) 100vw, 1030px\" data-rel='gallery-1' data-prev-img='https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-495x400.jpg' class='first_thumb lightbox ' data-onclick='1' title='Interview-JariMattila'  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"  ><img class=\"wp-image-15409 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-15409\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-180x180.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\"  title='Interview-JariMattila' alt='' srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-80x80.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-120x120.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-content\/uploads\/member\/2015\/11\/Interview-JariMattila-450x450.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><br \/>\nHi Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Jari Mattila. I&#8217;m originally from Helsinki Finland, and have lived in the US since 1984. As to what\/who I am, well, that&#8217;s a little more difficult to answer, except that after living in various parts of the US, I&#8217;ve discovered that, at least for me, there really is no place like NY. My favorite thing (other than traveling myself&#8230;) is to tour the city with visitors and to share my own experiences, as a European in the US, with them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little background:<\/p>\n<p>I originally came to the U.S. as a teenager to attend high school as an exchange student in Madison, Wisconsin. Following High School, I spent the next four years studying music at William Paterson University in suburban New Jersey, as well as working as a musician in salsa and merengue bands all over the metropolitan area, most often in Queens. Like many other northerners, I&#8217;ve always had a fascination with warm weather, and soon after graduation decided to give Southern California a try and experience the year-round sunshine and the swaying palm trees. San Diego turned out to be as beautiful as everyone had said, but after living there for nearly a decade, I still missed the energy and lifestyle of New York. There simply is no other place as exciting and full of life. Not to mention the interesting (and funny!) people&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>That move happened in 1998 after which I spent the next 15 years or so working with the music departments of two soap operas, Guiding Light and As The World Turns, as well as managing Procter &amp; Gamble&#8217;s music publishing companies. P&amp;G owned most of the soap operas since the genre began in the 30s and is actually the reason for the term &#8220;Soap Opera.&#8221; P&amp;G originally started out as a soap manufacturing company who then created dramatic (therefore &#8220;opera&#8221;) TV shows on which they advertised their own products exclusively.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to working in music publishing, and as music director for the P&amp;G soaps, I also had some small acting gigs in a yet another soap, One Life to Live, as well as a few low budget independent movies. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed acting and continue doing it whenever an opportunity presents itself. My next project is a courtroom\/suspense play titled &#8220;Second Seat,&#8221; which will have its performances in January.<\/p>\n<p>After the soaps operas ended (it was about time, they were on every weekday for nearly 80 years!) I realized that this would be a chance to do something I&#8217;ve always wanted to do but never had the time, which is to put together a private tour and relocation company. I have always loved spending a day walking or driving around the city while having interesting conversations with great people so this is really the ideal job for me. And it&#8217;s rewarding work, too, as being able to enhance someone&#8217;s NY experience, whether they are from Finland, Estonia, Spain, or Wisconsin, is really what&#8217;s it&#8217;s all about for me. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Pi9wOH7fHls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All the best,<\/p>\n<p>Jari Mattila<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.NYforEveryone.com\">www.NYforEveryone.com<\/a><br \/>\nNew York For Everyone<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone! My name is Jari Mattila. 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As to what\/who I am, well, that&#8217;s a little more difficult to answer, except that after living in various parts of the US, I&#8217;ve discovered that, at least for me, there really is no place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15407"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29552,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15407\/revisions\/29552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eurocircle.com\/euro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}