{"id":3961,"date":"2009-07-14T10:20:34","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2009-07-14T10:20:34","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T14:20:34","slug":"stolen-pixels-107-left-4-dumb-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=3961","title":{"rendered":"Stolen Pixels #107: Left 4 Dumb, Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An awful lot is going on today.  It&#8217;s the 4th anniversary of The Escapist.  Congrats to all my friends who have worked so hard on it. Here&#8217;s to selling off the whole thing to Ziff Davis and the lot of you retiring like kings!<\/p>\n<p>Just kidding.  I&#8217;d rather you continued to amuse me once a week than got rich.  Priorities.<\/p>\n<p>Today is also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/comics\/stolen-pixels\/6262-Stolen-Pixels-107-Left-4-Dumb-Part-23\">the final entry in the Left 4 Dumb series<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>The Escapist originally began by releasing their issues as a PDF each week.  In honor of that, they&#8217;ve made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/content\/issue_pdf\">a special PDF issue for their 4th birthday<\/a>.  It has a special Stolen Pixels, which is only available in the PDF.  Also, they also interview that one oddball reviewer they&#8217;ve got.  You know, the Scotsman who lives in New Zealand or whatever.  What&#8217;s his name?  Backgammon or something?  I forget.  Anyway.  They interview that guy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An awful lot is going on today. It&#8217;s the 4th anniversary of The Escapist. Congrats to all my friends who have worked so hard on it. Here&#8217;s to selling off the whole thing to Ziff Davis and the lot of you retiring like kings! Just kidding. I&#8217;d rather you continued to amuse me once a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961","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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}