{"id":313,"date":"2009-12-06T12:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-12-06T12:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/?p=313"},"modified":"2009-12-06T12:29:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-06T12:29:34","slug":"dragon-up-in-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/12\/06\/dragon-up-in-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon, Up in the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dragonage.bioware.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-535\" title=\"2009.12.02.a\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2009.12.02.a.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theupintheairmovie.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-534\" title=\"2009.12.02.b\" src=\"https:\/\/updates.xephalon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/2009.12.02.b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Fortune smiled upon me this holiday season and kept my pager quiet throughout the weekend. This year, we spent our Thanksgiving with Melody&#8217;s boss&#8217; family, where we dined on traditional turkey (dark meat, of course), stuffing, yams, and mashed potatoes. And despite doing a somersault with a 4-foot dive onto the hardwood floor, Melody&#8217;s pumpkin cake still made a respectable showing at the dinner table. My parents also came up to Boston to celebrate my dad&#8217;s birthday. Beside the usual seafood <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newjumboseafoodrestaurant.com\/\">feast<\/a> with steamed black bass and peapod stems, we also revisited <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmart.com\/\">H-mart<\/a>, our newly-discovered Korean mega-grocery store in Burlington which offers enough sampler tables to rival its own pan-Asian food court. Back home, we embarked on the new fantasy epic <a href=\"http:\/\/dragonage.bioware.com\/\">Dragon Age: Origins<\/a>. Like our previous role-playing adventures, our character will be another elf rogue-ranger-assassin, who will again battle the imminent onslaught of devilish creatures in yet another apocaylptic event, while also engaging in a myriad of unnecessary yet entertaining side quests, many of which will inevitably involve obtaining some key to open some chest. Yes, it is predictable &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t mean it still can&#8217;t be loads of fun. For something more original, I strongly recommend the new film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theupintheairmovie.com\/\">Up in the Air<\/a>, which we saw at a free screening tonight. The creators of Juno once again delivers a sarcastic, thought-provoking perspective from an unlikely hero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortune smiled upon me this holiday season and kept my pager quiet throughout the weekend. This year, we spent our Thanksgiving with Melody&#8217;s boss&#8217; family, where we dined on traditional turkey (dark meat, of course), stuffing, yams, and mashed potatoes. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/2009\/12\/06\/dragon-up-in-the-air\/\">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-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","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=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xephalon.net\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}