{"id":689,"date":"2010-01-01T23:42:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T07:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=689"},"modified":"2010-01-01T23:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T07:42:30","slug":"day-324-resolute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/?p=689","title":{"rendered":"Day 324: resolute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, 2010!<\/p>\n<p>Two quick resolutions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In one year, be at or below 180 pounds.<\/li>\n<li>Find at least 15 minutes each day to read to my son.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, two quick games I forgot to mention in yesterday\u2019s post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The West<\/strong> is a web game that, all in all, isn\u2019t that good.&#160; You set your character to go around the old west, doing odd jobs and sometimes fulfilling quests.&#160; You can join a town of other people and build up the shops and other buildings in the town.&#160; You can duel other players.&#160; That\u2019s about it.&#160; But I\u2019ve been playing it, for an hour or so total each day, for the past few months.&#160; This is mainly due to the fact that a group of co-workers play it and discussing our latest exploits in the west has become a major topic of conversation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Surviving High School <\/strong>is an iPhone game made by EA.&#160; Centered around a group of students who go to the fictional Centerscore High School, it manages to deliver a fresh episode each week that promises at least one LOL moment and many little chuckles.&#160; The characters are lovingly created high school archetypes and though the gameplay is limited to a few minigames and mostly dialogue choices, I\u2019ve found myself making time for each new episode and playing several multiple times and watching the different dialogue choices unfold.&#160; What attracts me most with this game is, like the MySims franchise, the characters.&#160; It\u2019s clear that even for this budget iPhone title, the universe these high school kids live in and their backstories have been given some design love.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also I played Civ 4 for an ungodly number of hours today.&#160; And I\u2019m <em>this close <\/em>to unifying China!&#160; Through excessive military force, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, 2010! Two quick resolutions: In one year, be at or below 180 pounds. Find at least 15 minutes each day to read to my son. Also, two quick games I forgot to mention in yesterday\u2019s post: The West is a web game that, all in all, isn\u2019t that good.&#160; You set your character to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[306,20,305,25],"class_list":["post-689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-306","tag-baby","tag-resolution","tag-video-games","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}