{"id":605,"date":"2004-07-18T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2004-07-18T23:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=605"},"modified":"2006-08-16T19:11:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T22:11:23","slug":"weekend-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=605","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Wrap up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>ought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/games\/riseofnations\/\">Rise of Nations<\/a> last Friday and am still not sure what to think of it. It looks like a combination of Risk (the board game) and Civilization, that is when playing the &#8216;Conquer the World&#8217; variant. Neat sea battles though, although I find it hard to believe my &#8216;dreadnoughts&#8217; could be sunk by sailing boats. Or that sailing boats survive a good bunch of torpedoes. Umm. No. I should have gone for something else. Euro 2004 for example.\n<\/p>\n<p>Alfons dug <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=musicNews&#038;storyID=5696029\">this one out<\/a>: In Europe, Elvis hits may become public domain after 2005. I think that would be pretty neat. Or see <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/04\/07\/17\/1717218.shtml?tid=141&#038;tid=103\">Slashdot discussion<\/a>. We can finally have Cliff Richard as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.genx40.com\/archives\/2004\/july\/bad#reply20842\">website-background-music<\/a> (says Alan).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought Rise of Nations last Friday and am still not sure what to think of it. It looks like a combination of Risk (the board game) and Civilization, that is when playing the &#8216;Conquer the World&#8217; variant. Neat sea battles &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=605\">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\/605"}],"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=605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}