{"id":1725,"date":"2006-06-22T20:06:11","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=1806"},"modified":"2010-05-08T19:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-08T22:51:00","slug":"the-jig-is-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2006\/06\/22\/the-jig-is-up\/","title":{"rendered":"The jig is up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, time to confess all. (cue ominous background music&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>You see, I have this congenital <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychgenetics.com\/pt\/re\/psychgen\/abstract.00041444-200604000-00005.htm\">high activity monoamine oxidase A<\/a> syndrome. In other words, I&#8217;m a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neophile\">neophile<\/a> (also called &#8220;neophiliac&#8221;). One of the subtypes, at least&#8230; apparently I get an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblog.com\/cms\/thirst-for-knowledge-may-be-opium-craving-10849.html\">endorphine kick<\/a> when I learn something new. Since you&#8217;re reading this, you may be one too! <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/icon_smile.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"icon_smile.gif\" \/> Very useful for a programmer, I must say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medialifemagazine.com\/artman\/publish\/article_5439.asp\">Media Life<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/gadgets\/gadgets\/are-you-a-neophiliac-182589.php\">Gizmodo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, time to confess all. (cue ominous background music&#8230;) You see, I have this congenital high activity monoamine oxidase A syndrome. In other words, I&#8217;m a neophile (also called &#8220;neophiliac&#8221;). One of the subtypes, at least&#8230; apparently I get an endorphine kick when I learn something new. Since you&#8217;re reading this, you may be one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dev","category-sci"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-rP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}