{"id":1500,"date":"2008-01-29T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T13:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2008-01-30T13:25:28","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T18:25:28","slug":"something-about-mass-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"Something About Mass Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About two dozen people have sent me a link to some article about Mass Effect at the NYT.  The link is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/26\/arts\/television\/26mass.html?_r=3&#038;ref=arts&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin&#038;oref=slogin\">here<\/a>, but the Times put the thing behind their registration wall. <\/p>\n<p>I Googled around for a way past the wall, found a site that claimed it would show me an NYT article if I gave it the link.  It managed to show me all the ads and none of the prose.  Sigh.  Forget it.  <\/p>\n<p>So, if you have the time or you know the secret NYT handshake, then there might be an article there worth reading.  <\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: HeatherRae poaches their text <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1500#comment-87417\">below<\/a>.  It&#8217;s actually a pretty interesting read.  <\/p>\n<p>ALSO: Jay Barnson has his take on it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rampantgames.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/cooper-lawrence-admits-mistake-over.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AND: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cineris.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/23\/more-massed-effect\/\">Augury has videos, pics, and samples from the woman&#8217;s trashed Amazon,com book reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two dozen people have sent me a link to some article about Mass Effect at the NYT. The link is here, but the Times put the thing behind their registration wall. I Googled around for a way past the wall, found a site that claimed it would show me an NYT article if I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}