{"id":631,"date":"2008-04-28T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T21:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2008\/04\/28\/hello-im-a-dork\/"},"modified":"2008-04-28T21:11:45","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T04:11:45","slug":"hello-im-a-dork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/2008\/04\/28\/hello-im-a-dork\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Dork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit it. T, on the other hand, apparently still likes to pretend he&#8217;s cool. =)<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve both been reading and enjoying the first book in this sci-fi\/fantasy <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/His-Majestys-Dragon-Temeraire-Book\/dp\/0345481283\">series<\/a> (which may be coming out as a movie next year). As is often the case in sci-fi\/fantasy books, dragons play a pivotal role. I casually brought up, over lunch at Baja Fresh, that I had a question about how the dragons in the book learn English.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than respond, T briefly froze, then quickly looked around the room, mumbled something unintelligible under his breath and hurried us out of the restaurant (fortunately, we&#8217;d finished eating!). Apparently bringing up dragons in public is a huge social taboo because it outs him as a dork. Or at least the guy eating with a dork. =)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I&#8217;m not ashamed to admit it. T, on the other hand, apparently still likes to pretend he&#8217;s cool. =) We&#8217;ve both been reading and enjoying the first book in this sci-fi\/fantasy series (which may be coming out as a movie next year). As is often the case in sci-fi\/fantasy books, dragons play a pivotal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-friends-family-and-everyone-in-between"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sweetpea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}