{"id":4842,"date":"2013-04-29T14:53:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/random-average.com\/?p=4842"},"modified":"2013-04-29T14:58:35","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:58:35","slug":"eve-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/eve-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Eve Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have trouble explaining to my non-Eve-playing gamer friends what it is about the game that I find so compelling. It&#8217;s everything. It&#8217;s one little thing. It&#8217;s that <i>other<\/i> little thing that I love, except when I hate it. It&#8217;s the people, because they&#8217;re awesome. It&#8217;s the people, because they&#8217;re horrible. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s&#8230; complicated. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing for two and a half years, and I still find myself sort of chuckling every few days as I mutter &#8220;I am <em>so bad<\/em> at this game.&#8221; I just try to enjoy the time I have and do better than the day before. There are worse things to take away from a game, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>However.<\/p>\n<p>If I am asked to explain it &#8211; to sum up the backstory, or to convey the adrenaline dump from a good fight, or the goosebumps I get when I catch a glimpse of the sheer scope of a game created as much by the players as the company &#8211; from here on out, I&#8217;m just going to show people the Origins video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FZPCiqBLPM8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have trouble explaining to my non-Eve-playing gamer friends what it is about the game that I find so compelling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-4842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-resources","category-mmos","tag-eve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4842\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/randomaverage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}