{"id":25,"date":"2008-03-26T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=25"},"modified":"2008-03-26T12:59:21","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T17:59:21","slug":"the-bus-wizard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"The Bus Wizard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the bus I sat across from a guy that was obviously another geek. It&#8217;s not a matter of being able to identify your own but a case of stereo types coming together in one person.<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I noticed about this individual was his glasses. At first glance they appeared to be horribly crooked. At second glance I realized that one eye is significantly lower than the other, just making his bent glasses seem worse. He sits down and opens up his backpack. Being a fellow geek I notice what many others would not, the merest sliver of a Spider Man lunch box. Then he pulls out a book on making comics. Once he started reading, the buck teeth popped ever so slightly over his bottom lip.<\/p>\n<p>All of this is fine and normal awkward geek fare. The part that really stood out after he sat down was his toque. This was astounding. I don&#8217;t think I could purposefully do this. It sat on his head like a bashed up wizards hat. It was tall, wrinkled and had that slight bend to one side.<\/p>\n<p>It was awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today on the bus I sat across from a guy that was obviously another geek. It&#8217;s not a matter of being able to identify your own but a case of stereo types coming together in one person. The first thing I noticed about this individual was his glasses. At first glance they appeared to be &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Bus Wizard&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbhOv-p","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inguz.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}