{"id":1029,"date":"2007-09-13T20:53:10","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/09\/13\/anticipation-2\/"},"modified":"2007-09-13T20:53:10","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T00:53:10","slug":"anticipation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/09\/13\/anticipation-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much to my surprise, there was a Wii waiting for me when I got home tonight.\u00a0 Yesterday ebgames said my order would ship September 14, but the darn thing was already at home today.\u00a0 If I knew it was that easy, I would have ordered one a long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>Since this is for the kids (technically that is what I told my wife) I have to wait until Christmas before I can give it a go.\u00a0 After all, Santa is going to place it under the tree.\u00a0 Let me go on the record and say that there is a hell of a long haul between now and Christmas.\u00a0 How can I have a new system for 90+ days and not even check it out \u2026 \u201cjust to make sure it works.\u201d\u00a0 My wife would string me up if I just decided \u201cHappy Columbus Day\u201d or some such.\u00a0 Of course the kids would get over it, but I would have to endure the life of a monk.\u00a0 Thanks, but no thanks.<\/p>\n<p>I still think I am going to have to figure out a way to check things out.\u00a0 Just to make sure the Wii works.\u00a0 And if a little Madden gets in the way, so much the better.\u00a0 After all, it is my duty to make sure the kids are not disappointed Christmas morning.\u00a0 How else will I know if the thing is busted?<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much to my surprise, there was a Wii waiting for me when I got home tonight.\u00a0 Yesterday ebgames said my order would ship September 14, but the darn thing was already at home today.\u00a0 If I knew it was that easy, I would have ordered one a long time ago. Since this is for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/09\/13\/anticipation-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Anticipation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","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-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}