{"id":328,"date":"2005-06-12T19:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-12T19:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2005\/06\/12\/mormon-geeks\/"},"modified":"2005-06-12T19:26:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-12T19:26:00","slug":"mormon-geeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=328","title":{"rendered":"Mormon Geeks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Calm down, I&#8217;m not calling Mormons geeks&#8230;but take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestbuy.com\/site\/olspage.jsp?id=pcmcat38200050030&amp;type=category\">this<\/a> picture and tell me what YOU think. Gene and I went to Best Buy and while we were waiting for a sales guy to show us the notebook computers, the Mormon geeks (as in <em>computer <\/em>geeks) kept streaking by, all dressed in their white shirts and black ties. I wanted to shout &#8220;Hey, John Smith to the rescue!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Har har har.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we walked out with a Gateway notebook for yours truly. On the way to our late lunch, Gene says &#8220;I think it goes without saying, but just in case you don&#8217;t know, THIS is your cruise.&#8221; Yeah, and my anniversary present. And Christmas. And maybe birthday. All in all, my new computer was costlier than his new gun (you remember, the &#8220;fun&#8221; gun&#8230;or is it the carry gun?) but when you factor in the holster he&#8217;s looking at and his propsenity toward going ass-wild at iTunes, I think things are equal. &#8216;Sides, even stepmothers get Mother&#8217;s Day presents, right?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Never in my life did I think I&#8217;d compare a gun and a computer. What the hell happened to me?<\/p>\n<p>And, remember when I said I&#8217;d have 3 dead fuschia plants? Yeah. On the bright side, some of my&#8230;.err&#8230;violas(?) have been resurrected so maybe I&#8217;ll come out ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Yep, I&#8217;m giggling about that, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Calm down, I&#8217;m not calling Mormons geeks&#8230;but take a look at this picture and tell me what YOU think. Gene and I went to Best Buy and while we were waiting for a sales guy to show us the notebook computers, the Mormon geeks (as in computer geeks) kept streaking by, all dressed in their&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-really-deep-thoughts","category-snaked-again-naturally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}