{"id":93259,"date":"2021-06-26T15:46:56","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T19:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=93259"},"modified":"2021-07-07T14:27:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:27:54","slug":"hour-seven-house-of-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/hour-seven-house-of-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"Hour Seven\/House of Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">House of Nerds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normal is a house of nerds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a book character best friend<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">latest novel as conversation starter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a ten-year old recognizes the tropes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normal is a house where music<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 is poetry, reciting lines of Shakespeare entertainment<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normal is house of contemplation<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 where we welcome questions and doubts<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 about a higher power, consider the meaning of our existence<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Do we ascend to a heavenly plain or return to the universe?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Where does our energy, our life force go?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normal is often anxiety and stress<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 These questions perplex and confound<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 perfection is elusive, so why do we do obsess?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Normal is introversion but not misanthropy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We don\u2019t dislike people,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 We&#8217;re just uncomfortable in crowds<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our normal is a house of nerds<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House of Nerds Normal is a house of nerds \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0a book character best friend latest novel as conversation starter \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 a ten-year old recognizes the tropes\u00a0 Normal is a house where music \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 is poetry, reciting lines of Shakespeare&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104202,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93259\/revisions\/104202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}