{"id":836,"date":"2006-11-22T08:07:42","date_gmt":"2006-11-22T08:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/nerd-holidays\/"},"modified":"2006-11-22T08:07:42","modified_gmt":"2006-11-22T08:07:42","slug":"nerd-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/nerd-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Holidays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snarkout.org\/archives\/2006_11_21.php\">suggests a holiday<\/a> for computer nerds:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Far better than World Hello Day would be Hello World Day, celebrating 32 years of every programming manual&#8217;s stock first example. Global diversity could be honored by recognizing our rainbow of programming languages, from Pascal to Brainfuck, and when we were done we could all sing a song, examine some art, and return to our homes without bothering anyone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, it makes more sense than &#8220;Talk Like a Pirate Day&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as always with a Snarkout post, there are more offbeat links in the post than you would want to shake a stick at, and way more than I feel like cut-and-pasting over here, so click over there and read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Cook suggests a holiday for computer nerds: Far better than World Hello Day would be Hello World Day, celebrating 32 years of every programming manual&#8217;s stock first example. Global diversity could be honored by recognizing our rainbow of programming languages, from Pascal to Brainfuck, and when we were done we could all sing a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/11\/22\/nerd-holidays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerd Holidays<\/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":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}