{"id":1318,"date":"2009-04-01T10:40:54","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=1318"},"modified":"2009-04-01T10:40:54","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T15:40:54","slug":"april-1-is-a-bad-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/01\/april-1-is-a-bad-day\/","title":{"rendered":"April 1 Is a Bad Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notice how the Sports Illustrated page has real news on it and isn&#8217;t trying to be wacky?<\/p>\n<p>Why does the games media take this day to heart so much? You get wacky lists, fake press releases, ludicrous patch notes on every single site. None of this takes any real effort and only reinforces in my mind how many of us don&#8217;t really take what we do seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I&#8217;m a curmudgeon. And I&#8217;ll admit a weakness for CGM&#8217;s April issues with ads from <a href=\"http:\/\/schadenfreudeinteractive.com\/sigmain.html\">Schadenfreude Interactive<\/a>. They always made me smile.<\/p>\n<p>What is it about the games media that makes April 1st so attractive as a day to waste my time? Am I just a humorless git?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice how the Sports Illustrated page has real news on it and isn&#8217;t trying to be wacky? Why does the games media take this day to heart so much? You get wacky lists, fake press releases, ludicrous patch notes on every single site. None of this takes any real effort and only reinforces in my [&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":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-lg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318"}],"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=1318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1319,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318\/revisions\/1319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}