{"id":2043,"date":"2007-12-06T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2007-12-06T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/smack-talking-geek-style\/"},"modified":"2007-12-06T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T21:04:28","slug":"smack-talking-geek-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/smack-talking-geek-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Smack Talking, Geek Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi is <a href=\"http:\/\/scalzi.com\/whatever\/?p=181\">talking a big game<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I was just taking one of those Internet tests to see how much of a geek I am, when I suddenly thought, what the fuck am I doing? I&#8217;m a published science fiction writer. Do not pass &#8220;go,&#8221; do not collect $200, you know? Just go straight to the geek win.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right, I win at geek. Tell me I&#8217;m wrong.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>All I have to say is, &#8220;Enjoy it while you can, Heinlein boy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing a book based on <strong>talking to my dog about quantum physics<\/strong>. Scalzi holds the title for the moment by virtue of actually being published, while my book is still pending.<\/p>\n<p>But he&#8217;s just keeping my chair warm. Talking to the dog about quantum theory blows away his weak little &#8220;Campbell Award winning SF author&#8221; thing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Scalzi is talking a big game: I was just taking one of those Internet tests to see how much of a geek I am, when I suddenly thought, what the fuck am I doing? I&#8217;m a published science fiction writer. Do not pass &#8220;go,&#8221; do not collect $200, you know? Just go straight to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/12\/06\/smack-talking-geek-style\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smack Talking, Geek Style<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,18,20,37,29,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-book_writing","category-books","category-dog","category-pop_culture","category-sf","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}