{"id":480,"date":"2005-11-21T22:39:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-22T03:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2005-11-21T22:39:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-22T03:39:00","slug":"and-now-its-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"And now it&#8217;s ok."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Geek pride continuously surprises me.  How did we get to this point, the point at which reveling in one&#8217;s social ineptitude has become a viable social action?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkgeek.com\/geektoys\/plush\/7ccc\/\">This product<\/a> in particular I find amazing.  Hilarious, but amazing.<\/p>\n<p>A direct relationship can be drawn between the broad acceptance of the Geek Nation and the realization of Uncle Bill&#8217;s dream of a personal computer in every home.  All of a sudden these kids have a purpose in their families.  Computer acting up?  Call Mikey.  Thus a place in modern society, and thus respect and endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>I want to know what the hell geeks did before computers went mainstream.  I know they read <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Dune<\/span>.  Ham radio?  Model railroads?  What did groups of geeks do before the Playstation?  Chess club?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geek pride continuously surprises me. How did we get to this point, the point at which reveling in one&#8217;s social ineptitude has become a viable social action? This product in particular I find amazing. Hilarious, but amazing. A direct relationship can be drawn between the broad acceptance of the Geek Nation and the realization of [&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-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}