{"id":76,"date":"2010-09-24T00:11:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T05:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurinkeithdavis.com\/wordpress\/?p=76"},"modified":"2010-10-14T10:27:06","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:27:06","slug":"nerd-journalism-aka-its-a-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurinkeithdavis.com\/wordpress\/nerd-journalism-aka-its-a-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerd Journalism (aka, It&#8217;s A Boy!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here on the porch of a &#8220;cabin&#8221; next to Lake Brownwood, which is definitely in the country, typing away this attempt to corral my thoughts out onto the Interweb, I am struck by how much I really do love technology. Look, I know almost nothing about journalism, and or writing in general. 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