{"id":683,"date":"2007-06-19T14:32:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/getting-decrepit\/"},"modified":"2008-01-02T11:16:04","modified_gmt":"2008-01-02T15:16:04","slug":"getting-decrepit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/06\/19\/getting-decrepit\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Decrepit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first sign of aging is not losing your hair or your memory, but your hand-eye co-ordination. That&#8217;s why most athletes peak in their mid-20s. (Sure you have the occasional freaks like Roger Clemens who go on forever, but they&#8217;re freaks.)<\/p>\n<p>My aging was brought into bright light yesterday when I first tried <em>Space Force: Rogue Universe<\/em>, a game I&#8217;m reviewing. Three tries at the first mission (introduced with interminable cutscenes and treacle so thick it would stop a bullet) and I&#8217;ve only reached the point where I am willing to admit I am too old and too unschooled for this sort of thing at the moment. Maybe I should be a trader instead of a policeman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do I get to Jump Station Alpha?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first sign of aging is not losing your hair or your memory, but your hand-eye co-ordination. That&#8217;s why most athletes peak in their mid-20s. (Sure you have the occasional freaks like Roger Clemens who go on forever, but they&#8217;re freaks.) My aging was brought into bright light yesterday when I first tried Space Force: [&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":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-b1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683"}],"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=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}