{"id":2759,"date":"2009-05-31T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-01T05:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2759"},"modified":"2009-05-31T22:32:35","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T05:32:35","slug":"hbs-hipster-blog-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2759","title":{"rendered":"HBS (Hipster Blog Syndrome)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I never realized that there are a bunch of hipsters out there trying to make their blogs more clever than they need to be. I&#8217;d think something like that would come across as overly slick and annoying to read, but then I remembered all the other hipsters would probably enjoy pointing out the cleverness in their own clever way. Ick. I suppose that&#8217;s why I have trouble reading the blogs of some professional writers, they&#8217;re too busy proving that they still have their writing chops and they&#8217;re still creative even though they have to write manuals for typewriters or specifications for rotary dial telephones in their day job. Me, I just let the man keep sucking my life away, eight hours at a time.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why you&#8217;re guaranteed to see the opposite of clever here on most occasions. Guess who has digestive problems? ME! Guess who has been eating too much? ME! Guess who won&#8217;t give you great pictures of what he&#8217;s been eating too much of? Well, me, but here&#8217;s a picture of the fried chicken and spoon bread brunch at the Country Cat.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ccfc.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ccfc-300x225.png\" alt=\"Country Cat fried chicken (brunch)\" title=\"Country Cat fried chicken (brunch)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2760\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>According to my sister, brunch is the way to go at the Country Cat as she&#8217;s been there for dinner as well. I&#8217;ve only been there the once (today) and I thought it was great. As long as I&#8217;m posting pictures, here&#8217;s one of Megan and Nadeem.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mnn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/mnn-300x225.png\" alt=\"Megan and Nadeem\" title=\"Megan and Nadeem\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2761\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Megan&#8217;s been giving me grief about her pictures of me being all &#8220;squinty and Asian looking&#8221; because, as those of you who have met me in person know already, I&#8217;m kind of squinty and Asian looking. I think this picture shows Megan proving that she&#8217;s a &#8220;round-eye&#8221;. I don&#8217;t have any pictures of me unless I steal them from others because who gets pictures of themselves on their own cameras? OK, that would be me, as well, but only when I have my digital camera out and not when I&#8217;m using my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>So there you go. Your daily dose of &#8220;not all that clever&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I never realized that there are a bunch of hipsters out there trying to make their blogs more clever than they need to be. I&#8217;d think something like that would come across as overly slick and annoying to read, but then I remembered all the other hipsters would probably enjoy pointing out the cleverness in their own clever way. Ick. I suppose that&#8217;s why I have trouble reading the blogs of some professional writers, they&#8217;re too busy proving that they still have their writing chops and they&#8217;re still creative even though they have to write manuals for typewriters or specifications for rotary dial telephones in their day job. Me, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=2759\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HBS (Hipster Blog Syndrome)<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2763,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2759\/revisions\/2763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}