{"id":7699,"date":"2010-04-05T09:41:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7699"},"modified":"2010-04-05T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T14:44:22","slug":"moral-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7699","title":{"rendered":"Mortal Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to emerge from the weekend without having written anything substantive. &lt;?php generate_excuse (); ?&gt; So as a way of distracting you, allow me to point out that even though I poke fun at Lord of the Rings Online and I savaged Champions Online, they are nowhere near the bottom of the MMO barrel. Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serialmmogamy.com\/?p=438\">this visit to Mortal Online via Serial MMOgamy<\/a>.  Actually, read the last few entries. Leslee plays a lot of esoteric MMO games and it&#8217;s amusing to see some of their outlandish design decisions in action. Some are just attempting to cater to unusual tastes or a small niche.  But others just seem to be designed by people who don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re doing.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to emerge from the weekend without having written anything substantive. &lt;?php generate_excuse (); ?&gt; So as a way of distracting you, allow me to point out that even though I poke fun at Lord of the Rings Online and I savaged Champions Online, they are nowhere near the bottom of the MMO barrel. [&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-7699","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\/7699","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=7699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}