{"id":1341,"date":"2025-10-28T22:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/?p=1341"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:23:13","slug":"love-thy-nerd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/2025\/10\/28\/love-thy-nerd\/","title":{"rendered":"Love Thy Nerd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lovethynerd.com\">lovethynerd.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Love Thy Nerd exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At LTN we love nerds. In fact, we\u2019re nerds ourselves. We also love Jesus and believe in what he asked us to do: love our neighbors. Whether you are a gamer, a Trekkie, a comic nerd, a Whovian, an otaku, a brony, a roleplayer, a LARPer, or any other flavor of nerd, we think you are valuable and wonderful. Unfortunately, Christians haven\u2019t always done a great job of loving their nerdy neighbors. We want to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LTN wants to speak redemption, hope, truth, and love into the parts of nerd culture that have often been alienated, demonized, dismissed, or simply ignored by Christians. We also want to educate Christians on the value of nerd culture and how we can love our nerdy neighbors better.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>lovethynerd.com Love Thy Nerd exists to be the love of Jesus to nerds and nerd culture. At LTN we love nerds. In fact, we\u2019re nerds ourselves. We also love Jesus and believe in what he asked us to do: love our neighbors. Whether you are a gamer, a Trekkie, a comic nerd, a Whovian, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249,266],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-nerd-geek-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1343,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1341\/revisions\/1343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefiretongue.com\/benotconformed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}