{"id":401,"date":"2005-09-19T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2005-09-19T19:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=401"},"modified":"2005-09-19T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2005-09-19T19:26:35","slug":"games-imitate-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Games imitate life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crystaltips.typepad.com\/wonderland\/2005\/09\/plaguelands.html\">Wonderland: WoW Plague.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wonderland: WoW Plague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73iP8-6t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":447,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=447","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":0},"title":"Geekcrash.","date":"12\/8\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Timmy Mac sent me this WoW video that sums up the geek way of life, while somehow bizarrely uplifting my Christmas Spirit. Enjoy.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":413,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=413","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":1},"title":"1,000,000 noobs pwned","date":"10\/21\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"If you're a geek -- and I am -- then these lads and ladies have some funny filmed vignettes to tickle your fancy. Pure Pwnage \"Hot Shot City\" \"WoW is a Feeling\" and \"FPS Doug\" are particularly good.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":277,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=277","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":2},"title":"If you&#8217;ve got the stomach&#8230;","date":"3\/11\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"For players of World of Warcraft, a list of fun items and easter eggs only adds to the addiction. I'll be taking my time to narrow the list to some of the best ones. For you, the Steelbuddha reader. After all, no one wants to wade through the numerouds bitchy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":231,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=231","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":3},"title":"Nerd perspective.","date":"12\/8\/2004","format":false,"excerpt":"So, when a spam arrives in your junk mail folder with the subject \"WOW Leather Blowout!\" what is your first reaction? Is it excitement over the prospect that a player of World of Warcraft has created several items with his leatherworking trade skill, might be selling them cheap, and that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":336,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=336","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":4},"title":"His name is Hobbes.","date":"6\/22\/2005","format":false,"excerpt":"All the freelancing and late nights and near break-ups have resulted in many bills paid, but also in this, my newest technology child. Thanks to Czeltic Girl for the photo and bandwidth. I have dinner with Dad tonight, or Hobbes would be getting quite the workout. Now I can run\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":510,"url":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/?p=510","url_meta":{"origin":401,"position":5},"title":"DDO impressions","date":"2\/21\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"DDO, or Dungeons and Dragons Online, had a pre-order beta test pre-play gig going on last week, and despite myself I decided to pick up a copy. I say \"despite myself\" because my impression before reading up on the game was that it was going to follow in the molds\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;For the geek in you&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steelbuddha.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}