{"id":127,"date":"2012-10-20T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stathiskanterakis.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2012-10-20T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:30:10","slug":"truly-inspiring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/20\/truly-inspiring\/","title":{"rendered":"Nerds That Rock, Episode 2: Matthew Inman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=Matthew+Inman\"><strong>Matthew Inman<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; IT professional who left his career to be creative on his own terms<\/p>\n<p><strong>+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/tesla\"><strong>Nikola Tesla<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; One of the greatest and least famous inventors to have ever lived, refusing profit and fame in order to innovate<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Internet<\/strong> &#8211; 70 years after Tesla has been dead and forgotten, with the initiative of Matthew Inman, raised $1.4 Million (!) in a week (!!) to restore his last laboratory in NYC as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teslasciencecenter.org\/\">museum and science center<\/a><\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>What you can achieve in 2012. How to be a true pioneer and bestow inspiration. How to say &#8220;screw this&#8221; I&#8217;ll do it my way.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NOTE TO SELF: Take the plunge already!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Nikola Tesla\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/5\/56\/Tesla3.jpg\" width=\"389\" height=\"495\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ok, I&#8217;ll start with the moustache\u00a0:{<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Inman &#8211; IT professional who left his career to be creative on his own terms + Nikola Tesla &#8211; One of the greatest and least famous inventors to have ever lived, refusing profit and fame in order to innovate * The Internet &#8211; 70 years after Tesla has been dead and forgotten, with the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/2012\/10\/20\/truly-inspiring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nerds That Rock, Episode 2: Matthew Inman&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12,20],"tags":[84,86],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-life","category-science","tag-tesla","tag-the-oatmeal","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stathiskanterakis.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}