{"id":991,"date":"2011-07-25T14:57:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/?p=991"},"modified":"2017-07-24T16:28:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T15:28:21","slug":"happy-geek-pride-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/25\/happy-geek-pride-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Geek Pride Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-992\" title=\"Geek pride\" src=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-pride_design.png\" alt=\"Geek pride\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-pride_design.png 280w, https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-pride_design-130x130.png 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Yup, it&#8217;s got it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geek_Pride_Day\" target=\"_blank\">own day<\/a>. It took me a while to not be ashamed of being a geek, so I&#8217;m proud there&#8217;s a day to celebrate and unite all of the various and numerous geeks out there.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing wrong with being a geek guys and gals. Show&#8217;s you&#8217;re a little different and passionate about what you like and do. Take <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/comic\/prologue-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\">my comic <\/a>for example; I&#8217;m not trying to do it to be different on purpose or make a statement (I&#8217;m looking at you Hipsters). I just love doing it and it makes up a part of who I am in a special way. I&#8217;m also an Excel &amp; Data geek, which lands me good jobs and allows me to fund the things I love.<\/p>\n<p>Also, if you break down a geek you&#8217;ll see that they simply have intelligence and obsession. Not really bad characteristics, right? Beats stupid and indifferent&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-995\" title=\"Geek Venn\" src=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-matrix.jpg\" alt=\"Geek Venn\" width=\"410\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-matrix.jpg 410w, https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/geek-matrix-300x280.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yup, it&#8217;s got it&#8217;s own day. It took me a while to not be ashamed of being a geek, so I&#8217;m proud there&#8217;s a day to celebrate and unite all of the various and numerous geeks out there. Nothing wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/25\/happy-geek-pride-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2689,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991\/revisions\/2689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.en-mercs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}