{"id":486,"date":"2010-01-19T20:32:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2010-01-19T20:32:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T01:32:39","slug":"why-am-i-a-total-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/why-am-i-a-total-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Am I a Total Geek?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Netta&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Ullabe pause for six seconds between her first and last name?<\/p>\n<p>Why do all the anchors call her Soraya <em>Sa-har-di<\/em> Nelson, when she clearly calls herself Soraya <em>Sar-hadi<\/em> Nelson?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Terry Gross welcome people to <em>Fresh Air<\/em> but not allow them to thank her for having them?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Lynne Rosetto Casper shout &#8216;Hey!&#8217; before phrases like &#8216;take care&#8217; and &#8216;thanks for calling&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Guy Raz get to have a name like that?<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t all the other journalists sign off like Eufebia Quistarkten <em>(Dakaaaaaaar)?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Why isn&#8217;t Ira Flatow punished for his bad jokes?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t I find how to spell Dwahali Saicowtow?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t callers understand that Neil Conan just wants you to state your damn point and does not want you to thank him for taking your call?<\/p>\n<p>Why doesn&#8217;t Ira Glass realize that &#8220;a variety of different kinds of stories&#8221; is redundant?<\/p>\n<p>Why can&#8217;t Carl Kasell&#8212;UNC alum and basketball fan and so <em>freaking<\/em> adorable&#8212;be my grandpa?<\/p>\n<p>Why does Ann Taylor sound like she&#8217;s being goosed in the middle of the phrase &#8216;Dow Jones InDUStrial Average&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Why, Terry Graedon?\u00a0 Why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Netta&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..Ullabe pause for six seconds between her first and last name? Why do all the anchors call her Soraya Sa-har-di Nelson, when she clearly calls herself Soraya Sar-hadi Nelson? Why does Terry Gross welcome people to Fresh Air but not allow them to thank her for having them? Why does Lynne Rosetto Casper &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/19\/why-am-i-a-total-geek\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Am I a Total Geek?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}