{"id":213,"date":"2000-07-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2000-07-30T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/30\/dorkitude_never\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T03:49:10","slug":"dorkitude_never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/30\/dorkitude_never\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorkitude Never Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Old habits die hard.<\/strong> No matter how old I get, or how much poise and self-confidence I have, I still have these occasional relapses to my high-school social instincts. Meaning that a lot of the time when I find myself around the cool, popular kids, I become a shy, awkward, babbling, grade-A <i>loser.<\/i> Why must the simplest things sometimes be so difficult?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old habits die hard. No matter how old I get, or how much poise and self-confidence I have, I still have these occasional relapses to my high-school social instincts. Meaning that a lot of the time when I find myself around the cool, popular kids, I become a shy, awkward, babbling, grade-A loser. Why must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2000\/07\/30\/dorkitude_never\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dorkitude Never Dies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapersonal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69649,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/69649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}