{"id":412,"date":"2012-05-01T03:51:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T03:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2012-05-13T00:09:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T00:09:53","slug":"portal-2-on-sunday-portal-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/412","title":{"rendered":"Portal 2 on Sunday \/ Portal on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_413\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/escape_020000.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/escape_020000-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"portal\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/escape_020000-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/escape_020000-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/escape_020000.jpg 1776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portal = BRILLIANT!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I almost beat two games in a series on the same day.  Alas, &#8217;twas not to be, but instead I beat <b>Portal 2<\/b> (PS3) on Sunday afternoon and <b>Portal<\/b> (PC) on Monday evening. It was beautiful.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve posted my thoughts about this brilliant series already but I was left in awe at the outset. Virtually every element of the series was beyond my expectations.  It&#8217;s the first PC game I&#8217;ve completed in years.  It was fun, challenging and mind-bending all at once.  The concept of cooperative missions intrigues me beyond comprehension.  I&#8217;ll just have to find time in my schedule.  It was all just <b>that good<\/b>.  The only thing better would be <i>more<\/i>!  I&#8217;m only sorry that it&#8217;s over and that it took me so long to get to these works of art.  Phenomenal. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I almost beat two games in a series on the same day. Alas, &#8217;twas not to be, but instead I beat Portal 2 (PS3) on Sunday afternoon and Portal (PC) on Monday evening. It was beautiful. I&#8217;ve posted my thoughts about this brilliant series already but I was left in awe at the outset. Virtually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","category-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":441,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}