{"id":850,"date":"2005-12-26T10:41:32","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T14:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=850"},"modified":"2005-12-26T10:50:29","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T14:50:29","slug":"happy-boxing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=850","title":{"rendered":"Happy Boxing Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">F<\/span>or the people in Northern America and that teeny bit of country in Europe that celebrates this day: Happy Boxing Day. May this day fulfill all the material things you wanted for 2006. For the rest of the world, have a merry <em>second<\/em> Christmas Day, which is a day that is supposed to fulfill <em>both<\/em> material and spiritual needs. Obviously, we need more Christmas days, but I admit, that would be an  expensive proposition.\n<\/p>\n<p>Now: I&#8217;m in the process of playing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/xbox\/action\/halflife2\/\">Half-Life 2<\/a>. While the &#8216;boat&#8217; part was fun, I experienced the same effects Alfons had 1 year ago: dizzyness and particular sick to the stomach. However, I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s the boatride that makes things worse: I felt mostly sick when I had to switch back to &#8216;first person&#8217; mode to solve puzzles to open doors and gates. The &#8216;buggy drive&#8217; is fun: it is actually good to have someone next to you listening to the hints and seeing the things I apparently missed. However: Half-Life 2 is brilliant. Once again it is the storyline that runs this game. The maps (like in the first Half-Life) are challenging. I do find that I run out of ammunition more frequent than I want: aiming with the controller is obviously harder than doing this with a keyboard and mouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the people in Northern America and that teeny bit of country in Europe that celebrates this day: Happy Boxing Day. May this day fulfill all the material things you wanted for 2006. For the rest of the world, have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=850\">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\/850"}],"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=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}