{"id":939,"date":"2009-01-01T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/geek-in-chief-yea.html"},"modified":"2009-01-01T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T13:28:00","slug":"geek-in-chief-yea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/geek-in-chief-yea.html","title":{"rendered":"Geek-in-Chief &#8211; Yea!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, admission of what many of us have suspected all along.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/search\/content\/shared-gen\/ap\/US_President_And_White_House_Advisers\/Obama_Geek_in_Chief.html\">Barack Obama is a geek<\/a>.  I couldn&#8217;t be more proud, especially considering he&#8217;s a Star Trek fan.  Let&#8217;s hope it bodes well as this country definitely needs to boldly go where no one has gone before.<br \/>Key quote:<br \/><span class=\"aponline\"><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"font-style: italic;\"><p><span class=\"aponline\">In May in Des Moines, Newsweek caught Obama teasing wife Michelle about her belt buckle, saying it was studded with Star Trek-powering dilithium crystals and adding, &#8220;Beam me up, Scotty!&#8221; As he laughed at his own joke, Michelle Obama rolled her eyes, as geek wives often do.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, they do indeed&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally, admission of what many of us have suspected all along. Barack Obama is a geek. I couldn&#8217;t be more<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/01\/geek-in-chief-yea.html\" title=\"Read Geek-in-Chief &#8211; Yea!!\">Read more &raquo;<\/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-939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}