{"id":341,"date":"2005-09-16T13:01:07","date_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2005-09-16T13:01:07","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T13:01:07","slug":"getting_a_life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2005\/09\/16\/getting_a_life\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anne and I have been e-mailing this afternoon about the <a title=\"Weary of the Fight\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2005\/09\/weary_of_the_fight\/\">previous entry<\/a> &#8212; what I was trying to say, what she thinks I actually did say, that sort of thing &#8212; and we just had an exchange that you folks out there might find amusing, especially if you&#8217;ve ever known a genuine, stereotypical geek:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>ME: The thing that shocked me [about the experience at the comic-book shop] was more that I just didn&#8217;t want to talk about [<i>Star Wars<\/i>]. I didn&#8217;t want to defend my preferences for the umpteenth time. I found myself looking at this kid and thinking what all geeks hate to hear&#8230; Get a life.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ANNE: oh no! Not the dreaded &#8220;get a life&#8221;. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ME: Yes&#8230; that soul-crushing, ego-destroying weapon-of-last-resort employed by the practical and small-minded, the plebes and drudges who just don&#8217;t see how damned important it is that Adm. Kirk&#8217;s insignia changed from the left side of his uniform to the right side during beaming, and that it couldn&#8217;t have been anything as simple as a continuity error, there MUST be some &#8220;in-universe&#8221; explanation for it&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Every once in a while, I feel like I get lucky and manage to really nail a concept or an experience in words. This is one of those times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anne and I have been e-mailing this afternoon about the previous entry &#8212; what I was trying to say, what she thinks I actually did say, that sort of thing &#8212; and we just had an exchange that you folks out there might find amusing, especially if you&#8217;ve ever known a genuine, stereotypical geek: ME: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}