{"id":1783,"date":"2004-07-19T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-19T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=528"},"modified":"2004-07-19T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-19T15:51:00","slug":"hm-everquest-or-meathooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1783","title":{"rendered":"Hm&#8230; Everquest or Meathooks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so one of the folks in the office made the old &#8220;EverQuest = EverCrack&#8221; joke, talking about how addictive online games are.  Well, that may be, but it beats the current popular activity torn from today&#8217;s headlines: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/South\/07\/18\/odd.hooks.reut\/index.html\">Meat hook dangling craze mystifies police<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now I know there are parents who don&#8217;t want their kids playing computer games all summer, but given <b>this<\/b> as an alternative?  I&#8217;d bet they&#8217;d open their wallets in a heartbeat for a decent PC, Lost Dungeons of Norrath, and a subscription.  It certainly seems like a healthier pastime than hanging around on the beach all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ok, so one of the folks in the office made the old &#8220;EverQuest = EverCrack&#8221; joke, talking about how addictive online games are. Well, that may be, but it beats the current popular activity torn from today&#8217;s headlines: &#8220;Meat hook &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1783\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}