{"id":195,"date":"2005-04-08T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=193"},"modified":"2005-04-08T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-04-08T17:41:00","slug":"its-time-to-slay-the-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2005\/04\/08\/its-time-to-slay-the-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s time to slay the dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to play Everquest a lot.  Some of you may remember.  Today while chatting with Emily she mentioned Neru and my first thought was &#8220;Who is Neru?&#8221;.  It wasn&#8217;t a long thought, a split second at most, but still a bit shocking.<\/p>\n<p>Neru was my dark elf enchantress, who liked to run around with Euclidus, Emily&#8217;s wood elf ranger, and start shit with bastard orcs, especially if they lived deep down in some cold ice caves in the middle of a frozen waste.  Those were, without a doubt, good times.  But I&#8217;m glad they&#8217;re over, and that we&#8217;ve both become more productive with our lives.  I&#8217;m having much more fun now just being alive, and not sitting on my ass quite as much.<\/p>\n<p>However, in memory of Neru, I would like to take a moment to pay <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainburst.com\/\">homage<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffshrine.org\/\">to<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www22.brinkster.com\/phoenixofflame\/\">all<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=dnd\/welcome\">things<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atari.com\/us\/games\/atari_flashback\/7800\">dork<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to play Everquest a lot. Some of you may remember. Today while chatting with Emily she mentioned Neru and my first thought was &#8220;Who is Neru?&#8221;. It wasn&#8217;t a long thought, a split second at most, but still a bit shocking. Neru was my dark elf enchantress, who liked to run around with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"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=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}