{"id":108,"date":"2010-08-06T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T20:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?p=108"},"modified":"2010-08-05T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T04:36:24","slug":"nerdxhaustion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Nerdxhaustion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five days after his vacation, Will is drained. An IT programmer and an introvert, he longs for the days, three short years ago, when being a nerd meant you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be<em> that <\/em>social. You had your best mate and your girl and your computer, and Hell Pizza delivery, and life was good. He had hoped he&#8217;d left a certain need to network behind in London. But a nameless global trend has reached Wellington\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wind-churned shores at last, and Will hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spent an evening at home this week.<\/p>\n<p>Monday was <a href=\"http:\/\/wellington.nerdnite.com\/\">Nerdnite<\/a>. Tuesday was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ignitewellington.co.nz\/\">Ignite<\/a>. Wednesday was an open-source software user\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s group. Thursday is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tepapa.govt.nz\/WhatsOn\/allevents\/Pages\/ScienceExpressatTePapaTheLongWayDownFromprospecttomine5aug.aspx\">Science Express at Te Papa<\/a>, on something he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really interested in. He has run into co-workers at all these evenings.<\/p>\n<p>Will goes out of free-floating anxiety around getting re-established in this town, where connections mean so much. Living walking distance from downtown, he feels he doesn&#8217;t have an excuse to not go. Also, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s afraid he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll miss something, because he sees all the bright young things from where he works out and about at these evenings.<\/p>\n<p>It hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t occurred to him that the young nerds, the ones fresh out of uni, go because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cheaper than having to turn on the electric heaters in their uninsulated flats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five days after his vacation, Will is drained. An IT programmer and an introvert, he longs for the days, three short years ago, when being a nerd meant you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be that social. You had your best mate and your girl and your computer, and Hell Pizza delivery, and life was good. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,34,14],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shortfic","tag-geekery","tag-social-mores","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsawellingtonlife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}