{"id":52,"date":"2006-05-31T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=52"},"modified":"2006-05-31T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T14:06:00","slug":"so-are-we-blaming-this-on-harry-potter-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"So, are we blaming this on Harry Potter, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=left>\n<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/news.bostonherald.com\/national\/view.bg?articleid=141358\">&#8216;Fight Clubs&#8217; for Techies&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s long been a stereotype that IT professionals and engineers are soft, squishy geeks with no social skills, who divert their inner aggression into ferocious technical slang and hyper-macho role-playing and video games (for which the the toughest body parts required are the posterior and the wrist). This presents a somewhat different picture! Should we be disturbed by this trend? Recently I was looking for some strength-training paraphernalia to replace some of mine that was wearing out. I had to buy it all online because the local sporting goods stores don&#8217;t carry much for strength training anymore. The hot new sport, judging from the amount and variety of merchandise? Boxing. My guess is that movies like &#8220;Cinderella Man&#8221; and &#8220;Million Dollar Baby&#8221; are behind this fad&#8211;which is attracting women as well as men. Is <u>this<\/u> more worrisome even than &#8220;Harry Potter&#8221;?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Fight Clubs&#8217; for Techies&#8217; It&#8217;s long been a stereotype that IT professionals and engineers are soft, squishy geeks with no social skills, who divert their inner aggression into ferocious technical slang and hyper-macho role-playing and video games (for which the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=52\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}