{"id":13,"date":"2007-01-21T09:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/blizzards-everywhere.html"},"modified":"2010-03-20T17:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T23:15:22","slug":"blizzards-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/blizzards-everywhere.html","title":{"rendered":"Blizzards&#8230; Everywhere!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia got covered in sheets of ice over the weekend, causing all kinds of hilarity&#8230; if inching along the sidewalk and then feeling that moment of terror as I slip was hilarious. School was supposed to start on Tuesday but it was canceled due to the icy conditions. Still, I braved the outdoors that day for something way more important than school: to get my hands on the Burning Crusade. <\/p>\n<p>Walmart was out (I was there to get contacts) but Best Buy had lots and lots right by the door. I don&#8217;t know if I was trying to act cool or what, but I walked by the display and went around the store before returning to grab a copy and check out. The cashier tried to start a conversation about it, but she knew nothing about the game. She asked if I &#8220;had everything I needed to play.&#8221; My mind raced. Did she mean actual real life things like a computer, and a copy of World of Warcraft? Or did she mean in-game things like a level 60 character to take advantage of the new areas?<\/p>\n<p>I answered with a ambiguous &#8220;Almost!&#8221; She then asked me about what Warcraft is exactly and what the goal is. By then I knew the context of the conversation so I was happier to keep talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia got covered in sheets of ice over the weekend, causing all kinds of hilarity&#8230; if inching along the sidewalk and then feeling that moment of terror as I slip was hilarious. School was supposed to start on Tuesday but it was canceled due to the icy conditions. Still, I&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/blizzards-everywhere.html\" class=\"readmore\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Blizzards&#8230; Everywhere!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16],"tags":[179],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}