{"id":1958,"date":"2008-10-23T11:00:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-23T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1958"},"modified":"2008-10-23T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2008-10-23T14:58:46","slug":"dawn-of-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1958","title":{"rendered":"Dawn of Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have time to polish today&#8217;s intended noontime post.  Partly because I spent a little too much time on the <a href=\"?p=1954\">morning post<\/a> (those are <strong>supposed<\/strong> to be short, Shamus!) but mostly because I&#8217;m suddenly behind on Stolen Pixels.  I like a strip or two (or three!) of lead time, but my City of Heroes series got messed up with the onset of Halloween and now I can&#8217;t get the shots I need for the jokes I wrote. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>So, let me just point you to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_130\/2764-Dawn-of-Games\">this article by Corvus Elrod<\/a>.  You know how you can scratch a dog between the ears and make him all happy?  That article does the same thing for my <em>frontal lobe<\/em>.  It&#8217;s short, but it&#8217;s good, and it&#8217;s something to read besides my whining.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t have time to polish today&#8217;s intended noontime post. Partly because I spent a little too much time on the morning post (those are supposed to be short, Shamus!) but mostly because I&#8217;m suddenly behind on Stolen Pixels. I like a strip or two (or three!) of lead time, but my City of Heroes [&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-1958","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\/1958","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=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}