{"id":1598,"date":"2005-07-24T11:15:18","date_gmt":"2005-07-24T11:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2005-07-24T11:15:18","modified_gmt":"2005-07-24T11:15:18","slug":"requiem_for_a_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1598","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for a Fictional Scotsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interesting-people.org\/archives\/interesting-people\/200507\/msg00241.html\">Kevin Barkes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Other kids worshipped baseball players. My hero was a fictional Scottish engineer from the 23rd century.<\/p>\n<p>Before the terms geek and nerd entered the vernacular, we were called<br \/>\nbrains, or, more cruelly, weirdos. We built Heathkits, disassembled<br \/>\ntelevisions and tape recorders, and bribed the librarian to give us<br \/>\nfirst crack at the new issues of Popular Science and Popular<br \/>\nElectronics, usually by changing the ribbon or switching the golf<br \/>\nballs on her newfangled IBM Selectric.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Barkes: Other kids worshipped baseball players. My hero was a fictional Scottish engineer from the 23rd century. Before the terms geek and nerd entered the vernacular, we were called brains, or, more cruelly, weirdos. We built Heathkits, disassembled televisions and tape recorders, and bribed the librarian to give us first crack at the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}