{"id":695,"date":"2006-09-23T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T22:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/23\/world-of-warcraft-begins-part-1\/"},"modified":"2006-09-23T18:45:03","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T22:45:03","slug":"world-of-warcraft-begins-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/23\/world-of-warcraft-begins-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"World of Warcraft (Begins Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The adventure begins.  Or something like that I suppose.  After looking around at EBGames and realizing why I do not like that join (and why I typically shop online), I walked a few store down to Circuit City.  Imagine my surprise when I found a big fat display of WoW titled (\u201cnow only $19.99\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>5 CDs and a 200+ page manual await, but first I had to get the DVD drive.  For some reason the drive would not open.  After some minor surgery, things are now in working order.<\/p>\n<p>I am about to start on an adventure, full of preconceived notions, and expectations that may or may not be met.  I have been told that I should reserve several hours for patching the game, which is one of the things I have always despised about PC gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Time permitting, I will post some updates, impressions (from a newbie perspective), or something along those lines.<\/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>The adventure begins. Or something like that I suppose. After looking around at EBGames and realizing why I do not like that join (and why I typically shop online), I walked a few store down to Circuit City. Imagine my surprise when I found a big fat display of WoW titled (\u201cnow only $19.99\u201d). 5 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/09\/23\/world-of-warcraft-begins-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World of Warcraft (Begins Part 1)<\/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-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}