{"id":92,"date":"2012-02-15T08:12:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2012\/02\/the-fun-side-of-jeremy-lin\/"},"modified":"2012-02-15T08:12:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:12:00","slug":"the-fun-side-of-jeremy-lin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/wordynerdy\/2012\/02\/the-fun-side-of-jeremy-lin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fun Side of Jeremy Lin"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Even I, almost the least sports-inclined person in the world, am swept up by the excitement around Jeremy Lin. \u00a0Amazing what an Asian-American guy who\u2019s excelling at NBA basketball can do for one\u2019s ethnic identity, not to mention my son\u2019s. \u00a0Add that Jeremy was part of the Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (that InterVarsity supports), publicly (and seriously) talks about his trust in God, and continues to exhibit surprising humility even in the midst of a media frenzy, and I almost feel like his proud Mama.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, after taking our <a href=\"http:\/\/plumbingdemons.blogspot.com\/2012\/02\/how-did-i-miss-training-on-barf.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">formerly vomiting child<\/a> to an emergency pediatric gastroenterology app\u2019t. \u00a0(The tomato soup? \u00a0Turns out there was nothing red consumed the previous day and so the redness was blood! \u00a0But all\u2019s well, thank God), and finding out the gigantic mole taken off another child\u2019s tummy was benign (again, thank God), I needed to decompress.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, that led me to youtube and this video of Jeremy Lin by Ryan Higa (Hawaii born and raised youtube comedy phenom) entitled \u201cHow to Get into Harvard.\u201d \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Get into Harvard ft. 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