{"id":1839,"date":"2013-09-02T15:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2013-09-02T15:22:34","modified_gmt":"2013-09-02T20:22:34","slug":"gone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/09\/02\/gone-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Gone Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefullbrightcompany.com\/gonehome\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1841\" alt=\"2013.09.02.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013.09.02.a.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.showcase.ca\/continuum\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1842\" alt=\"2013.09.02.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/2013.09.02.b.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>After being out of town for 3 weekends in a row, I was relieved to be home for Labor Day &#8211; a welcomed break for me to finally get some work done. After cooking up a big pot of Spam soup, I spent most of the weekend indoors. By the end of the 3-day weekend, I had completed a book chapter, a case report manuscript, 3 weeks of laundry, and the critically-acclaimed indie game <a href=\"http:\/\/thefullbrightcompany.com\/gonehome\/\">Gone Home<\/a>, which I played from start to finish in just two sittings. The interactive story-telling game was reminiscent of classic games from the 90&#8217;s like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Myst\">Myst<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_7th_Guest\">7th Guest<\/a>, and featured magnificent voice-acting and period details transporting the player back to &#8230; incidentally &#8230; the 90&#8217;s. I also made better use of our swimming pool as well as my living room TV, which had been gathering dust since I bought the thing last fall. I fired up the PS3, logged onto <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\">Netflix<\/a>, and added several new TV shows to watch including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0367279\/\">Arrested Development<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showcase.ca\/continuum\">Continuum<\/a>, a Canadian science fiction series that successfully combines the best elements of sci-fi cult classics &#8211; dystopian future, time travel, and beautiful women in skin tight body suits. A weekend that is both productive and relaxing is just so satisfying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being out of town for 3 weekends in a row, I was relieved to be home for Labor Day &#8211; a welcomed break for me to finally get some work done. After cooking up a big pot of Spam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2013\/09\/02\/gone-home\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}