{"id":1130,"date":"2008-12-17T14:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/this-week-in-bad-opening-sentences\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T14:12:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T18:12:25","slug":"this-week-in-bad-opening-sentences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/this-week-in-bad-opening-sentences\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Bad Opening Sentences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xbox360.ign.com\/articles\/939\/939000p1.html\">From Charles Oynett&#8217;s review of Rise of the Argonauts at IGN:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The fusion of elements from the role-playing and action genres isn&#8217;t a new one. It&#8217;s part of the foundation of the ancient Greek epic poetry on which Liquid Entertainment&#8217;s Rise of the Argonauts is based. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why do people write things like this? I mean, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/_GeneratedPages\/GameReviews\/Review501.aspx\">I&#8217;m all for pretentious pseudo-intellectualism in the opening of a review<\/a>. But at least you could not get the relationship backwards.<\/p>\n<p>There are no role playing elements in Greek epic poetry. Epic poetry is a foundation of the role playing genre, not the other way around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Charles Oynett&#8217;s review of Rise of the Argonauts at IGN: The fusion of elements from the role-playing and action genres isn&#8217;t a new one. It&#8217;s part of the foundation of the ancient Greek epic poetry on which Liquid Entertainment&#8217;s Rise of the Argonauts is based. Why do people write things like this? I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"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}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-ie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}