{"id":28047,"date":"2010-11-29T01:08:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T05:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28047"},"modified":"2020-06-23T01:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T05:09:01","slug":"a-holiday-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28047","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-28048 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/supernerds.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/supernerds.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/supernerds-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">Two years ago saw the weekend of Thanksgiving completely rendered lazy and nerdy, as Jen and I spent the entire weekend doing absolutely nothing but play\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>Left 4 Dead<\/i><\/span>.\u00a0 Last year saw the weekend of Thanksgiving completely useless and lazy as just about all the time was spent playing\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>Left 4 Dead 2<\/i><\/span>.\u00a0 Needless to say, it&#8217;s kind of been tradition to more or less do absolutely nothing but sit around and play video games during the weekend after Thanksgiving, in our house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: Lora;\">Seeing as how there was no\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>Left 4 Dead 3<\/i><\/span>, this year Jen and I were forced to go our separate ways.\u00a0 Since we don&#8217;t really have any good co-op games, and I just didn&#8217;t really feel much like playing a shooter or anything that required that much thought, Jen opted to finish out the original\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>BioShock<\/i><\/span>, and I decided to seek, find, and blow the dust off of an old copy of the original\u00a0<span class=\"apple-style-span\"><i>Final Fantasy Tactics<\/i><\/span>, and go down memory lane with that one.\u00a0 The fact that there&#8217;s only one television in the living room was irrelevant, because the old 27&#8243; tube and Piss1 fit fine in the other corner of the room.\u00a0 And I didn&#8217;t feel like I was getting short-changed by not getting the 50&#8243; plasma, because quite frankly, playing FFT on anything but a 3:4 tube television, and getting frustrated at enemy Chocobos, just doesn&#8217;t seem fitting.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago saw the weekend of Thanksgiving completely rendered lazy and nerdy, as Jen and I spent the entire weekend doing absolutely nothing but play\u00a0Left 4 Dead.\u00a0 Last year saw the weekend of Thanksgiving completely useless and lazy as just about all the time was spent playing\u00a0Left 4 Dead 2.\u00a0 Needless to say, it&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=28047\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Holiday Tradition<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[93,76,101,61,15,115,110,19],"class_list":["post-28047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-final-fantasy","tag-geeks","tag-holidays","tag-l4d","tag-og","tag-thanksgiving","tag-tradition","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28047"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28049,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28047\/revisions\/28049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}