{"id":569,"date":"2002-06-08T20:14:09","date_gmt":"2002-06-09T04:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/08\/something-worth-saving\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T08:54:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T16:54:40","slug":"something-worth-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/08\/something-worth-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Something worth saving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[]'><\/div>\n<p>This next bit came out of a chat session today&#8230;I thought I&#8217;d save it. Wasn&#8217;t bad, for right off the top of my head.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> lol hey&#8230;I&#8217;m a geek&#8230;but I found a personality somewhere along the line, and can generally bury my geek-ness enough to cope with society fairly well&#8230;lol<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>dorkgoddess_ack:<\/strong> LMAO<br \/>\n  <strong>dorkgoddess_ack:<\/strong> I thought the geek part was normaly devoliped as a coping device to deal with society<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> yeah, I&#8217;d agree with that&#8230;but it generally happens with people who have weak personalities &#8212; which leads to both the societal problems, and the adoption of the geek persona &#8212; which is where i used to be&#8230;then I realized that I not only could, but did have my own, fairly strong personality, and managed to reconcile the geek with the non-geek<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> wow&#8230;and that was one hell of a paragraph&#8230;lol<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>dorkgoddess_ack:<\/strong> lol<br \/>\n  <strong>dorkgoddess_ack:<\/strong> do you realize you just sumed up your teen years and mid 20&#8217;s all in one paragraph<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Me:<\/strong> lmao<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> damn&#8230;I did, didn&#8217;t I?<br \/>\n  <strong>Me:<\/strong> I should save that<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>dorkgoddess_ack:<\/strong> lol yes you should\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I did. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>do you realize you just sumed up your teen years and mid 20&#8217;s all in one paragraph<\/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":[13],"class_list":["post-569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569","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=569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}