{"id":1344,"date":"2003-06-30T06:03:47","date_gmt":"2003-06-30T20:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/geeks-and-gay-queens\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:29:41","slug":"geeks-and-gay-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/30\/geeks-and-gay-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeks and gay queens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14323,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/26701#511316&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060516203505\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/26701&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/26701\\\/Scripting-News-is-taking-a-break&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:08:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-19 21:08:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14324,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/26701&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060516203505\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/26701&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/26701\\\/Scripting-News-is-taking-a-break&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:42:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 10:15:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 10:15:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9857,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.scripting.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310182807\\\/http:\\\/\\\/scripting.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 22:28:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 09:41:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-11 08:51:25&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 20:45:15&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 21:03:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-20 21:03:02&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14325,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/scriptingnews.userland.com\\\/2003\\\/06\\\/29#When:4:25:49PM&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/essaysfromexodus.scripting.com\\\/2003\\\/06\\\/29&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Geeks are irritating &#91;people&#93;, doesn&#8217;t make them bad. They are kinda like gay queens, complete with self-love and temper tantrums, except with a fetish for finickiness rather than young boys.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/26701#511316\" title=\"Well it's obvious none of you...\">carfilhiot<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/26701\" title=\"Scripting News is taking a break\">MeFi&#8217;s discussion<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scripting.com\/\" title=\"Scripting News\">Dave Winer&#8217;s<\/a> latest <a href=\"http:\/\/scriptingnews.userland.com\/2003\/06\/29#When:4:25:49PM\" title=\"Okay I think I made my point.\">tempertantrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geeks are irritating [people], doesn&#8217;t make them bad. They are kinda like gay queens, complete with self-love and temper tantrums, except with a fetish for finickiness rather than young boys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}