{"id":77,"date":"2012-11-15T19:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-15T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/?p=77"},"modified":"2013-12-10T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T19:06:47","slug":"77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Geek Pride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the line and without me noticing, the word &#8220;geek&#8221; has been redefined such that I no longer recognize the people to which it&#8217;s being applied or the perspective of those on any side of the arguments over the right to bear it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_78\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/74263840732ee4070386eda5ee766fab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78\" alt=\"Beard, silly hat, inappropriate touching...hmmm. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/74263840732ee4070386eda5ee766fab.png\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/74263840732ee4070386eda5ee766fab.png 420w, http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/74263840732ee4070386eda5ee766fab-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beard, silly hat, inappropriate touching&#8230;hmmm.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is just a hunch, but I suspect natives of Ireland have a similar feeling watching Americans on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere along the line and without me noticing, the word &#8220;geek&#8221; has been redefined such that I no longer recognize the people to which it&#8217;s being applied or the perspective of those on any side of the arguments over the right to bear it. This is just a hunch, but I suspect natives of Ireland [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.crossingmidnight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}