{"id":7964,"date":"2010-05-12T08:15:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7964"},"modified":"2010-05-12T08:15:21","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T13:15:21","slug":"shamus-plays-lotro-part-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7964","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays: LOTRO, Part 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/7546-Shamus-Plays-LOTRO-Part-17\">Our days in the Shire are coming to an end<\/a>.  Not yet, but soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=796\">A long time ago<\/a> I whined about the problem of trying to advance the plot while also telling jokes.  That&#8217;s even a bit of a challenge here, although with 2,000 words I still have lots of room to work in some jokes here and there.  The main problem I&#8217;m facing is that the main plot just isn&#8217;t quite as silly as the sidequests (which is usually a good thing) and so making fun of the game is no longer shooting fish in a barrel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our days in the Shire are coming to an end. Not yet, but soon. A long time ago I whined about the problem of trying to advance the plot while also telling jokes. That&#8217;s even a bit of a challenge here, although with 2,000 words I still have lots of room to work in some [&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-7964","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\/7964","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=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}