{"id":1572,"date":"2009-01-12T14:24:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-12T21:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1572"},"modified":"2009-01-12T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-12T21:24:19","slug":"grok-4-potentially-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1572","title":{"rendered":"Grok #4: Potentially Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very keen on doing our part to ensure that 2009 kicks a ridiculous amount of ass. Part of this will involve homemade shirts featuring our all-time favorite fanfic fantasy pairings (watch for Jeff&#8217;s &#8220;Edward Cullen + Havok: 4-Ever Angst&#8221; tee at NYCC!). The other part is making more issues of Grok.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ll recall, Grok is our little PDF zine about nerd stuff. Check out the sidebar for further explanation. Every issue has a theme: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1496\">Grok #3<\/a> was &#8220;Nameless Horror,&#8221; which means everyone who read it had countless nightmares about monster ticks and the suspiciously delicious hashbrowns at the Arkham Waffle House.<\/p>\n<p>For #4, we&#8217;re going a little more game-y and calling it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Extra Life.<\/p>\n<p>And! And! We want you to contribute. Write something, draw something, whatever. Check out previous issues for an idea of what we&#8217;re looking for. And remember that the theme can be interpreted as broadly or as specifically as you choose.<\/p>\n<p>If interested, please drop a line to <a href=\"mailto:fangirl@earthlink.net\">fangirl@earthlink.net<\/a>, tell us your idea, and take us from &#8220;potentially&#8221; to &#8220;definitely awesome.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re very keen on doing our part to ensure that 2009 kicks a ridiculous amount of ass. Part of this will involve homemade shirts featuring our all-time favorite fanfic fantasy pairings (watch for Jeff&#8217;s &#8220;Edward Cullen + Havok: 4-Ever Angst&#8221; tee at NYCC!). The other part is making more issues of Grok. If you&#8217;ll recall, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}