{"id":3747,"date":"2020-02-05T15:40:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:40:30","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T23:40:30","slug":"nerd-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3747","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Nerd Day<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Today is the day, if you haven\u2019t heard.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Time to celebrate the raise of the nerd.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>One who seems goofy and out of place.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Yet has the brains to conquer space.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>He may dress, look, and act oddly.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But, as for smarts, he\u2019s not shoddy.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>He can solve a Rubric\u2019s Cube in a flash.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>He will always be head of the class.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Without nerds, science wouldn\u2019t advance.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>So why are they often those who get pants\u2019d?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Often bullied by \u2018so called\u2019 normal boys.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Girls don\u2019t look twice at these brainiac toys.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>But, the nerds grow up to become successful.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Brilliant scientists whose work is stressful.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>They are responsible for saving millions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Money and people. They prevent killing.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Killing by plagues and other things.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>It is their knowledge that they bring.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>So, there is a place for nerds today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Celebrate,&#8212;&#8211; today is Nerd Day.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<strong><em>R.W. Johnson&#8212;&#8211;(2020)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nerd Day Today is the day, if you haven\u2019t heard. Time to celebrate the raise of the nerd. One who seems goofy and out of place. Yet has the brains to conquer space. He may dress, look, and act oddly. But, as for smarts, he\u2019s not shoddy. He can solve a Rubric\u2019s Cube in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/?p=3747\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nerd Day<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordsmithwisdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}