{"id":9940,"date":"2010-11-10T09:22:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9940"},"modified":"2010-11-10T10:57:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T15:57:20","slug":"shamus-plays-wow-part-2-into-the-bandits-den","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9940","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays WoW Part 3: Into the Bandit&#8217;s Den"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/8304-Shamus-Plays-Into-the-Bandits-Den\">Part three of this series is up at the Escapist.<\/a>  No, I don&#8217;t know how long the series will run.  Yes, it will cover the shift to Cataclysm.  No, I&#8217;m not running to the end-game. No, I&#8217;m not planning on multi-player content &#8211; this stuff is hard enough to put together as it is. Yes, I&#8217;m aware that your favorite race \/ class is so much more interesting than the one I&#8217;m writing about &#8211; I avoided that one because I thought you wanted to write about it? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really flattered by how many people are comparing this series to Terry Pratchett&#8217;s work.  In truth, I&#8217;ve never read his stuff, although I&#8217;m aware of it.  (My wife is a fan.) If I had to cite an influence, I suppose I&#8217;d have to go with Douglas Adams. Particularly his earlier, more playful work. The first two <em>Hitchhiker<\/em>&#8216;s books were zany, hectic, silly, and clever.  After that his books became darker, stranger, and more philosophical.  The Dirk Gently books were even more so, to the point where it was hard for me to enjoy them at first.  I&#8217;d gone in expecting <em>Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> and got something quite different.  I don&#8217;t think there was anything wrong with the books outside of my expectations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part three of this series is up at the Escapist. No, I don&#8217;t know how long the series will run. Yes, it will cover the shift to Cataclysm. No, I&#8217;m not running to the end-game. No, I&#8217;m not planning on multi-player content &#8211; this stuff is hard enough to put together as it is. Yes, [&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-9940","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\/9940","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=9940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}