{"id":98,"date":"2008-08-28T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.243.68.163\/blog\/?p=98"},"modified":"2008-08-28T16:03:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T23:03:13","slug":"the-harry-potter-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/?p=98","title":{"rendered":"The Harry Potter Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; I used to be a nerd\/geek when I was a kid, and I guess I still am. Let&#8217;s see, glasses, sporadically bad dress sense, can fix your computer and program your VCR, yeah. I have IRC on my blackberry. Yup, geek.<\/p>\n<p>And then it became cool to be a geek, but somehow I&#8217;m still not considered cool. I know I&#8217;m a geek. I know geeks are cool. But I don&#8217;t get to be cool. That&#8217;s not fair.<\/p>\n<p>I call it the Harry Potter effect. It&#8217;s cool to be a geek and wear glasses as long as you are also a professional model-actor, and as long as the glasses are just a prop, and they don&#8217;t correct your already-perfect vision. $80 haircuts help, too.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Potter, you&#8217;re a fake. Go away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230; I used to be a nerd\/geek when I was a kid, and I guess I still am. Let&#8217;s see, glasses, sporadically bad dress sense, can fix your computer and program your VCR, yeah. I have IRC on my blackberry. Yup, geek. And then it became cool to be a geek, but somehow I&#8217;m still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1,49],"tags":[79,80,78],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-other","category-music","tag-geeks","tag-glasses","tag-harry-potter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tekhedd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}