{"id":3498,"date":"2005-08-02T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2005-08-02T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2005-08-02T11:02:19","slug":"geek-power-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/08\/geek-power-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Geek Power, Go!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blocked\">&#8220;We used to not be able to stand the fact that we were in orchestra,&#8221; says Weiss, who&#8217;s been playing the violin since fourth grade and proudly wore the shirt to her high school this year. &#8220;Finally, we realized that&#8217;s where all our friends are and that&#8217;s where we have the most fun.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/EDUCATION\/07\/18\/dork.pride.ap\/index.html\" class=\"external external_icon\">&#8220;So why not just say we&#8217;re dorks?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a time when teens who tried something like that would have been asking for some serious goofing. But today being smart and sensitive, even a little socially awkward, is often considered cool &#8212; and the signs are everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The O.C.,&#8221; a TV show popular with teens, has Seth, a comic-book loving nerd played by actor Adam Brody. Bands such as Weezer also feed off the dork image, complete with horn-rimmed glasses and a song about being OK with not fitting the Beverly Hills mold. &#8220;Napoleon Dynamite&#8221; has a fan club; its Web site claims 150,000 members.<\/p>\n<p>And, increasingly, people are parading around in shirts that say &#8220;Dork Pride!&#8221; among other things. Such items have gotten so popular that CafePress.com, an online merchandiser, has created a special category for shirts and other items celebrating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/cp\/browse\/N-3807_in~dim~search-1\" class=\"external external_icon\">geeks, dorks and nerds<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Goofing&#8221;? &#8220;Goofing&#8221;?! What century are you from Mr AP writer? I mean&#8230; damn.<\/p>\n<p>(via 7d)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We used to not be able to stand the fact that we were in orchestra,&#8221; says Weiss, who&#8217;s been playing the violin since fourth grade and proudly wore the shirt to her high school this year. &#8220;Finally, we realized that&#8217;s where all our friends are and that&#8217;s where we have the most fun. &#8220;So why [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}