{"id":1188,"date":"2011-09-06T15:01:27","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2011-09-06T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T19:01:27","slug":"monster-of-the-day-54-man-who-fails-to-recognize-that-sports-fanaticism-is-equivalent-to-nerd-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=1188","title":{"rendered":"Monster of the Day #54: Man Who Fails to Recognize that Sports Fanaticism is Equivalent to Nerd Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Monster54.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Monster54-1024x791.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Monster54-1024x791.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Monster54-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Name<\/strong>: Man Who Fails to Recognize that Sports Fanaticism is Equivalent to Nerd Culture <\/p>\n<p><strong>Powers<\/strong>: Loud. Knows many names. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Weaknesses<\/strong>: Logic, imagination, lava, other teams, cheetahs. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Origin<\/strong>: This monster roams the countryside promoting his favorite teams and mocking nerds, not knowing that he, himself, is a big ol&#8217; nerd. His nerd habits include: <\/p>\n<p>Dressing up<\/p>\n<p>Buying merchandise<\/p>\n<p>Studying the mythology (or statistics)<\/p>\n<p>Creating fan-fiction and predicting the various outcomes with friends<\/p>\n<p>Being emotionally invested in the events of powerful warriors  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Rules<\/strong>: When asked why, specifically, he supports a certain team, he will become enraged and will try to bite your face. This is a confusion reflex. There is no answer to that question.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description<\/strong>: He cannot glow in the dark.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nLast Seen<\/strong>: Falling asleep during the big game he anticipated all week.  <\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.laserfarm.com%2F%3Fp%3D1188&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Man Who Fails to Recognize that Sports Fanaticism is Equivalent to Nerd Culture Powers: Loud. Knows many names. Weaknesses: Logic, imagination, lava, other teams, cheetahs. Origin: This monster roams the countryside promoting his favorite teams and mocking nerds, not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/?p=1188\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monster"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laserfarm.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}