{"id":1025,"date":"2006-03-26T11:55:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-26T15:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2006-03-26T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T15:56:04","slug":"pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"Pirates!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or a couple of months, an ad for &#8216;Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates!&#8217; has been laying on my table. It&#8217;s actually the backcover of the manual for Civilization 4 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?cat=31\">category<\/a>), but nonetheless, an ad it is, showing a  couple of screenshots with (only) the following catch phrases:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">1. Engage in fierce naval battles<br \/>\n2. Plunder French ports.\n<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, if you don&#8217;t like the French, &#8216;Pirates&#8217; is the game for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a couple of months, an ad for &#8216;Sid Meier&#8217;s Pirates!&#8217; has been laying on my table. It&#8217;s actually the backcover of the manual for Civilization 4 (category), but nonetheless, an ad it is, showing a couple of screenshots with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1025\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}