{"id":122,"date":"2004-12-02T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2004-12-02T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2004-12-02T18:45:13","slug":"eq-ii-revenge-of-the-evercrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/12\/02\/eq-ii-revenge-of-the-evercrack\/","title":{"rendered":"EQ II:  Revenge of the Evercrack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"storycontent\">\n<p>I vacillated.  I hedged.  I spent hours in Best Buy just to leave empty-handed.  I questioned what I&rsquo;d really <strong>like<\/strong> to do in my free-time and came up with some rather inconclusive premonitions. And then I broke. I was a man on a mission. I wouldn&rsquo;t be stopped. I bought Everquest 2. Weep for me.<\/p>\n<p>I won&rsquo;t go into it too much, except to say that it&rsquo;s fun. It&rsquo;s lush, enjoyable, and captivating. That (almost) every NPC has a voice makes the experience that much more involving. It&rsquo;s a much different feel than Everquest, and so far, I like it entirely too much. Even so, I won&rsquo;t allow my life to get sucked into another MMPORG abyss. I&rsquo;d like to feel I&rsquo;m beyond that now; this is simply an enjoyable distraction. Hah. I&rsquo;ll put up some screenshots once I get over my initial awe and can function again.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I vacillated. I hedged. I spent hours in Best Buy just to leave empty-handed. I questioned what I&rsquo;d really like to do in my free-time and came up with some rather inconclusive premonitions. And then I broke. I was a man on a mission. I wouldn&rsquo;t be stopped. I bought Everquest 2. Weep for me. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}