{"id":137,"date":"2008-09-25T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=137"},"modified":"2008-09-25T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T14:57:00","slug":"new-game-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"New game addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I am still completely hooked on WoW, I do believe I have broken my addiction to &#8220;new games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See back before my daughter was conceived we had &#8220;extra&#8221; money. We were able to pay our bills, get rid of debt, and generally buy what we needed or wanted (within reason).  So when ever a new cool computer or video game was released, I could (and often would) run out and get it right away.<\/p>\n<p>Never mind if I had no time to devote to actually playing it.  Forget the fact that I already had a stack of games that had been installed but not played.  *laughs*  Nope I would just pick things up to &#8220;have&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It was hard, but now as long as I can hold out for the first ten days after release, I generally have no problems not buying a game.  <\/p>\n<p>Most recent examples have been Age of Conan, and Warhammer Online.  I love MMOs, and really want to play these while people at the office are also playing.   Though I knew I just did not have time for them, and so I held off (thus far) from picking them up.  <\/p>\n<p>Yah, I know this sounds silly but I wanted to actually record the fact that at the age of 37 I started to grow up a little. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I am still completely hooked on WoW, I do believe I have broken my addiction to &#8220;new games.&#8221; See back before my daughter was conceived we had &#8220;extra&#8221; money. We were able to pay our bills, get rid of debt, and generally buy what we needed or wanted (within reason). So when ever a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xenopulse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}