{"id":8968,"date":"2006-05-31T01:52:36","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T01:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8968"},"modified":"2006-05-31T01:52:36","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T01:52:36","slug":"geek-fight-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8968","title":{"rendered":"Geek Fight Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/geekFightClub.jpg\">Gawd, and here I thought geeks were supposed to be smarter than everybody else. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/US\/05\/29\/fight.club.ap\/index.html\" target=\"new\">a piece<\/a> on CNN, a group of techies &#8212; software engineers, IT types, etc, get together twice a month in Menlo Park and beat the rivets out of each other:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable &#8212; from frying pans and tennis rackets to pillowcases stuffed with soda cans &#8212; they beat each other mercilessly in a garage in this bedroom community south of San Francisco. Then, bloodied and bruised, they limp back to their desks in the morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> WTF!? Listen up, my pencil-necked brothers, that high dome of yours just doesn&#8217;t have the same hit points as a meat head. That&#8217;s why he carries the battle axe, chain mace, and wears the big furry boots, and you wear a shiny mu-mu and a pointy hat and cast spells. Are we clear now?<\/p>\n<p> <i>Thanks, JT!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gawd, and here I thought geeks were supposed to be smarter than everybody else. According to a piece on CNN, a group of techies &#8212; software engineers, IT types, etc, get together twice a month in Menlo Park and beat the rivets out of each other: &#8220;Kicking, punching and swinging every household object imaginable &#8212; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geek Fight Club&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}