{"id":528,"date":"2004-07-09T21:19:16","date_gmt":"2004-07-09T21:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=528"},"modified":"2004-07-09T21:19:16","modified_gmt":"2004-07-09T21:19:16","slug":"geek_fetish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=528","title":{"rendered":"Geek Fetish"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Deidre Woollard, guys who read comic books are totally hot<\/a>. I must be hanging out in the wrong comic book store, because I never meet any girls dying to hear my critique of the latest Supreme Power. I was having coffee with a woman last weekend and I somehow let it slip that I read comics. And I was a little disappointed in myself because I said it like I was admitting to something embarrassing, like occasionally wetting the bed. So if I ever see this woman again, I’ll be sure to proclaim, “Yes, I read comics! And I’d be delighted to discuss their literary and artistic merits with you in the context of our postmodern society. If Umberto Eco<\/a> says comics are literature, then who are we to argue with him?”
\nBloggers are getting press credentials for the Democratic National Convention<\/a>. I’m a bit sorry I didn’t follow through on my own plans to blog from the Convention. But I’ll be very curious to see what kind of coverage bloggers can deliver. I hope they take the time to tell the stories that Big Media can’t be bothered to cover and that we get some good policy discussions, rather than just “So-and-So gave a speech and this is what they said.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Deidre Woollard, guys who read comic books are totally hot. I must be hanging out in the wrong comic book store, because I never meet any girls dying to hear my critique of the latest Supreme Power. I was having coffee with a woman last weekend and I somehow let it slip that […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-8w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}