{"id":7125,"date":"2011-07-18T05:50:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2011-07-18T05:50:46","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T11:50:46","slug":"the-role-of-the-beer-geek-in-modern-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-role-of-the-beer-geek-in-modern-society\/","title":{"rendered":"The role of the (beer) geek in modern society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the heals of a <a href=\"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/stuff-people-are-saying-about-beer\/\">conversation about record-store clerks<\/a> and beer zealots, <a href=\"http:\/\/pavementandbeerforpeace.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/15\/why-we-hate-geeks-nerds-and-snobs\/\">Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement<\/a> gives us:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;(T)en things geeks, nerds, snobs, and connoisseurs do that makes it hard to take their advice and opinions on beer and indie rock seriously.&#8217;<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/pavementandbeerforpeace.wordpress.com\/2011\/07\/15\/why-we-hate-geeks-nerds-and-snobs\/\">The link,<\/a> in case you hadn&#8217;t figured it out.)<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t pick which one I like best, I do know the conclusion really closes the deal.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Still, the backlash directed at beer nerds and indie geeks seems to resemble anti-intellectualism or anti-elitism that runs rampant through our political climate at the moment. These experts are valuable parts of our communities. They can connect dots and provide insight when it\u2019s lacking. The trick is to not let that abundance of knowledge overwhelm or drown out enjoyment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well put, ZJE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the heals of a conversation about record-store clerks and beer zealots, Building International Coalitions Through Beer and Pavement gives us: &#8220;(T)en things geeks, nerds, snobs, and connoisseurs do that makes it hard to take their advice and opinions on beer and indie rock seriously.&#8217; (The link, in case you hadn&#8217;t figured it out.) I &#8230; <a title=\"The role of the (beer) geek in modern society\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-role-of-the-beer-geek-in-modern-society\/\" aria-label=\"More on The role of the (beer) geek in modern society\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-1QV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}