{"id":2051,"date":"2007-10-08T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.com\/2007\/10\/08\/the-pain-of-the-year-end-maelstrom\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T18:20:53","slug":"the-pain-of-the-year-end-maelstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/the-pain-of-the-year-end-maelstrom\/","title":{"rendered":"The pain of the year-end maelstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is more depressing: the lack of <em>money<\/em>, or the lack of <em>time<\/em> required to play <a href=\"http:\/\/creator.zoho.com\/doctorsetebos\/html\/5\/\">all the games coming out this year<\/a> that I want to pick up. Just this month I have <em>Zack &amp; Wiki<\/em> coming out next week, and the double-bogey of <em>Guitar Hero 3<\/em> <em>(<strong>$90!!!!<\/strong>)<\/em> and <em>Battalion Wars 2<\/em> at the end of the month. On my birthday, no less! Which means there will be the possibility of picking up some of this stuff before too long, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p>Then November hits, and <em>Super Mario Galaxy<\/em> comes out, along with <em>Ghost Squad<\/em>, <em>Lego Star Wars<\/em>, <em>Puzzle Quest<\/em>, a new <em>Trauma Center<\/em>, and <em>Fire Emblem<\/em>. And don&#8217;t even get me started on December (<em>Super Smash Bros. Brawl<\/em>). I&#8217;m beginning to catalog the games I can do without for ebay auctions to help fund my addiction. Too bad there&#8217;s no online auction site where I can purchase more <em>time<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know which is more depressing: the lack of money, or the lack of time required to play all the games coming out this year that I want to pick up. Just this month I have Zack &amp; Wiki coming out next week, and the double-bogey of Guitar Hero 3 ($90!!!!) and Battalion Wars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[53,79],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-nintendo","tag-wish-list","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}