{"id":4008,"date":"2010-03-31T07:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T11:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4008"},"modified":"2010-03-30T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T12:07:51","slug":"geek-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4008","title":{"rendered":"Geek a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/scalzicard-106x150.png\" alt=\"Scalzi\" title=\"Scalzi\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Artist Len Peralta (of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterbymail.com\/\">Monsters by Mail<\/a> fame) has begun a project called <a href=\"http:\/\/geekaweek.net\/\">Geek a Week<\/a>: For 52 weeks he&#8217;s going to interview a notable geek and then create a trading card with their likeness and &#8220;fun facts&#8221; about them.<\/p>\n<p>John Scalzi was the most recent geek, providing the secret to his success (&#8220;Exploit Your Laziness&#8221;), and his trading card is completely wonderful: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jawboneradio\/4458756024\/in\/set-72157623436958787\/\">Front<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jawboneradio\/4458756518\/in\/set-72157623436958787\/\">Back<\/a> (in particular I love the tattoo on his arm).<\/p>\n<p>Peralta also has a running <a href=\"http:\/\/geekaweek.net\/post\/444625276\/need-em-have-em-need-em-need-em\">list<\/a> of geeks he&#8217;d like to &#8220;collect,&#8221; and says he&#8217;d be grateful to anyone who can help put him in contact with them.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/whatever.scalzi.com\/\">Whatever<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist Len Peralta (of Monsters by Mail fame) has begun a project called Geek a Week: For 52 weeks he&#8217;s going to interview a notable geek and then create a trading card with their likeness and &#8220;fun facts&#8221; about them. John Scalzi was the most recent geek, providing the secret to his success (&#8220;Exploit Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4008"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4008\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}