{"id":60,"date":"2004-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/blog\/?p=60"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:13:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T16:13:57","slug":"not-a-dweeb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=60","title":{"rendered":"Not a dweeb?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firedude.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-59 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firedude-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"pater in bunker suit\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firedude-177x300.jpg 177w, http:\/\/madosworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/firedude.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a>So it turns out, after all, that my paternal unit isn&#8217;t such a dweeb after all.&nbsp; I was concerned when I found out he was a computer dweeb &#8230; I mean, how could he possibly take care of my needs when he makes such poor career choices? But then I discovered that he moonlights as a volunteer firefighter&#8230; now that&#8217;s a real job. I imagine he gets paid mucho dinera for that!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m relieved, frankly. It would have been really awkward dragging my bones to the first day at pre-kin knowing that my answer to the perennial &#8220;so what does your father-figure do?&#8221; question would be &#8220;well&#8230; he&#8217;s a dweeb&#8221;.&nbsp; Now I can say, with some pride, that he&#8217;s a highly paid volunteer firefighting dude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it turns out, after all, that my paternal unit isn&#8217;t such a dweeb after all.&nbsp; I was concerned when I found out he was a computer dweeb &#8230; I mean, how could he possibly take care of my needs when he makes such poor career choices? But then I discovered that he moonlights as <a href=\"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/?p=60\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-c37-mado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/madosworld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}