{"id":9238,"date":"2014-03-31T15:47:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2014-03-31T15:47:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T20:47:53","slug":"in-which-wil-wheaton-wins-the-internet-and-my-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/in-which-wil-wheaton-wins-the-internet-and-my-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"In which Wil Wheaton wins the Internet, and my heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">I<\/span> heard this clip on CBC Radio on the way home today, and to my great surprise, I cried. Okay, maybe not so much surprise. It&#8217;s all over the Internet right all of a sudden, but if you haven&#8217;t seen it, you *must* watch it.<\/p>\n<p>This is Wil Wheaton at the Denver Comicon, replying to a little girl who asks him if he was called a nerd when he was growing up and how he dealt with it.  I have two favourite bits: the part where he says you should never make fun of someone for something they didn&#8217;t choose, and the part when he talks about how much better it gets once you get out of the school ecosystem. That might be the bit that made me cry.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/04WJEEb33CY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Trust me, it&#8217;s worth the 3 minutes, and then some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this clip on CBC Radio on the way home today, and to my great surprise, I cried. Okay, maybe not so much surprise. It&#8217;s all over the Internet right all of a sudden, but if you haven&#8217;t seen it, you *must* watch it. This is Wil Wheaton at the Denver Comicon, replying to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/31\/in-which-wil-wheaton-wins-the-internet-and-my-heart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In which Wil Wheaton wins the Internet, and my heart&#8221;<\/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":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-i-love-the-interwebs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9239,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}