{"id":130,"date":"2004-01-31T22:05:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-01T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/?p="},"modified":"2004-01-31T22:05:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-01T05:05:00","slug":"i-am-such-a-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"I am such a geek."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So what have I been doing for the past two days?<\/p>\n<p><em>Reading comic books.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>How many comic books?<\/p>\n<p><em>A bunch.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The best part is that they&#8217;re shorter than the Ian Rankin book my ex-girlfriend lent me. Both are good, but at least with comic books I don&#8217;t have to think about who is doing the death and dismemberment for days on end. In the comic books I get to see in in vivid color, and it&#8217;s some villain who is going to see the bottom of Batman&#8217;s boot. Well, I&#8217;m almost finished reading all the books I have, so it&#8217;s time to find some more.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we found out this morning just how long my dad has to stand in the shower to empty the hot water heater. A 20-minute shower is about as much as our new 50-gallon hot water heater can handle. We used to have an 80-gallon hot water heater but the salesman at the plumbing supply convinced me we didn&#8217;t need one so large. Serves me right for trusting him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So what have I been doing for the past two days? Reading comic books. How many comic books? A bunch. The best part is that they&#8217;re shorter than the Ian Rankin book my ex-girlfriend lent me. Both are good, but at least with comic books I don&#8217;t have to think about who is doing the death and dismemberment for days on end. In the comic books I get to see in in vivid color, and it&#8217;s some villain who is going to see the bottom of Batman&#8217;s boot. Well, I&#8217;m almost finished reading all the books I have, so it&#8217;s time to find some more. I guess we found out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=130\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I am such a geek.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}