{"id":451,"date":"2001-07-24T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2001-07-24T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=451"},"modified":"2001-07-24T12:10:00","modified_gmt":"2001-07-24T12:10:00","slug":"it_pays_to_be_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/it_pays_to_be_a\/","title":{"rendered":"it pays to be a geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>it just dawned on me the amount of preferential hardware treatment i get at work.  as mentioned earlier, i got a new computer yesterday.  thinking back, this is the fourth computer i&#8217;ve had since i&#8217;ve been there.  and, i haven&#8217;t even been here four years.<br \/>\nlooking around the other offices, and even within my own department, there are people using older, slower machines while i keep getting upgraded every time a new batch of pcs arrives.  i&#8217;m not sure why this is, maybe mike just likes me enough to let me have new bits.  he knows i understand them and appreciate the upgrades.  could it be the camradarie inherent in the brotherhood of geeks?<br \/>\nhe&#8217;s probably just hoping i&#8217;ll sleep with him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>it just dawned on me the amount of preferential hardware treatment i get at work. as mentioned earlier, i got a new computer yesterday. thinking back, this is the fourth computer i&#8217;ve had since i&#8217;ve been there. and, i haven&#8217;t even been here four years. looking around the other offices, and even within my own <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/it_pays_to_be_a\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}