{"id":750,"date":"2006-11-30T20:07:11","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T00:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/30\/the-wow-life\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T00:07:30","slug":"the-wow-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/30\/the-wow-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The WoW Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An actual exchange between a 44 year-old WoW player and his 42 year-old wife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My wife came into the den as I was waiting for our 40-man raid to start in Molten Core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhat are you and your \u2018people\u2019 getting ready to do?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere are 40 of us getting ready to start a raid,\u201d I explained.  \u201cWe\u2019re looking for another warlock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhat is that thing with the long tail that is hopping around?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThat\u2019s an imp.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She paused for effect before asking her next question.  \u201cYou must be 20 years older than any of your \u2018people\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cNo, in fact, I\u2019ve played with people in their fifties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWell, who are you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I hit the space bar and my dwarf priest did his little dwarf hop.  \u201cThat\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Another pause for effect.  \u201cYou do understand that I will never hear the words \u2018you should act your age\u2019 cross your lips in reference to anything I do, don\u2019t you?\u201d<\/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>An actual exchange between a 44 year-old WoW player and his 42 year-old wife. My wife came into the den as I was waiting for our 40-man raid to start in Molten Core. \u201cWhat are you and your \u2018people\u2019 getting ready to do?\u201d she asked. \u201cThere are 40 of us getting ready to start a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/30\/the-wow-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The WoW Life<\/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":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}