{"id":649,"date":"2007-05-12T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/12\/great-moments-in-box-blurbs-and-an-apology\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:29:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:29:41","slug":"great-moments-in-box-blurbs-and-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/12\/great-moments-in-box-blurbs-and-an-apology\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Moments in Box Blurbs and an apology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gamesradar&#8217;s Eric Bratcher has an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/us\/ps2\/game\/features\/article.jsp?articleId=20070510181738452013&#038;sectionId=1003&#038;releaseId=20060331143728168090\">article about the vapidity of box blurbs<\/a>, but today&#8217;s mail had a new personal favorite for me.<\/p>\n<p>On the DVD box of 1C\/Battlefront&#8217;s <em>Theatre of War<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;A spectacular engine&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> <strong>IGN.COM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in the middle of doing a couple of indie reviews for <a href=\"http:\/\/ptdmagazine.com\/\">PTD Magazine<\/a>, so that explains the radio silence on my end. My first pieces for the magazine have just been published, so I need to set up a page for that portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>(I also have some things to add to my review of <em>Ancient Wars: Sparta<\/em>, but it&#8217;s not up yet.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamesradar&#8217;s Eric Bratcher has an article about the vapidity of box blurbs, but today&#8217;s mail had a new personal favorite for me. On the DVD box of 1C\/Battlefront&#8217;s Theatre of War: &#8220;A spectacular engine&#8230;&#8221; IGN.COM I&#8217;m in the middle of doing a couple of indie reviews for PTD Magazine, so that explains the radio silence [&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":[78],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-at","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}