{"id":3050,"date":"2013-01-19T13:42:56","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T19:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=3050"},"modified":"2013-01-19T05:58:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T11:58:30","slug":"idiots-need-not-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=3050","title":{"rendered":"Idiots need not apply."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;ve filled the position.<\/p>\n<p>My <del datetime=\"2013-01-19T11:46:01+00:00\">day<\/del> night job is in a technical industry. Most of my coworkers have &#8220;limited&#8221; social skills. I include myself in this group.<\/p>\n<p>We are nerds, geeks, techies, dweebs etc. in the truest sense of the words.<\/p>\n<p>My first day on the job I walked into the men&#8217;s room and immediately knew that I would fit in perfectly. Standing in front of me at a towel dispenser was a 6&#8217;2&#8243; man of 40+ years of age bouncing up and down on his toes. His hand was held rigidly out in front of him touching the lever on towel dispenser. I identified with this immediately. After all, who says you have to move your arm to get the paper? Can&#8217;t you bounce and just hold your hand still?<\/p>\n<p>Where was I going&#8230;Ah, yes. Last night I found myself clacking away on my computer and playing the keys like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Borge\">Victor Borge <\/a>on a his silliest day. I was typing in time to the song on my speakers and punctuating and pointing at the keyboard as though I was some great performer that the audience was watching. Total nerdout.<\/p>\n<p>And it was fun.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not apologizing. It&#8217;s me. And I&#8217;m grateful for the gifts God&#8217;s given me.<\/p>\n<p>What secret quirks do you revel in? What makes you tic when others toc?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I&#8217;ve filled the position. My day night job is in a technical industry. Most of my coworkers have &#8220;limited&#8221; social skills. I include myself in this group. We are nerds, geeks, techies, dweebs etc. in the truest sense of <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=3050\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1143],"tags":[167,1315,1317,162,1316,1318,1314,1313],"class_list":["post-3050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lazy-author-with-nothing-to-blog-about","tag-commotion-in-the-pews","tag-dweebs","tag-geek","tag-joseph-courtemanche","tag-nerd","tag-nerdout","tag-techies","tag-victor-borge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3050"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3054,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3050\/revisions\/3054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}