{"id":75,"date":"2007-11-28T01:47:50","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T05:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/distractions\/"},"modified":"2014-01-25T18:04:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T22:04:15","slug":"distractions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/distractions\/","title":{"rendered":"Distractions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Thanksgiving break I started on a new web app and a tutorial. Not sure when either will be out though. I&#8217;ve been tired all week so I don&#8217;t expect to get too much work done on them until maybe Thursday or Friday (I&#8217;d put both at 50% right now). <\/p>\n<p>As a distraction, I found myself re-discovering Half Life 2, the first person shooter game that won all those awards back in 2004. If you&#8217;ve never played HL2, let me just echo what everyone else in the world has been saying: It&#8217;s an AMAZING game. Possibly the best game I&#8217;ve ever played (next to maybe American McGee&#8217;s Alice). I don&#8217;t really consider myself a gamer either. The last game I was really into was Doom 3, and that was back in 2005. When I fall for a game though, I fall hard.<\/p>\n<p>I spent my whole winter break playing Doom 3 all night. It was funny because I&#8217;d wake up around 4-5 in the afternoon, right as my roommate was coming home from work, and then I&#8217;d go to bed around 6-7 in the morning, right as my roommate was leaving for work. Well, I should get to bed, waiting until the last minute to write these things is always a bad idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the Thanksgiving break I started on a new web app and a tutorial. Not sure when either will be out though. I&#8217;ve been tired all week so I don&#8217;t expect to get too much work done on them until maybe Thursday or Friday (I&#8217;d put both at 50% right now). As a distraction, I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/28\/distractions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Distractions&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patorjk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}