{"id":223,"date":"2004-12-26T00:51:40","date_gmt":"2004-12-25T22:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/26\/crooked-countdown"},"modified":"2005-03-27T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T14:06:46","slug":"crooked-countdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/2004\/12\/26\/crooked-countdown","title":{"rendered":"Crooked countdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought countdowns were supposed to count <em>down<\/em> (oh what a linguistic revelation! This is what my education has always aimed at&#8230;). My Half Life<sup>2<\/sup> &#8220;Ready to play in approximately:&#8221; counter is counting up&#8230; 4253 mins 53 secs &#8212; 4254 mins 39 secs. It started from around 3700 so I was feeling optimistic.<\/p>\n<p>4264 min 41 sec<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n4275 min 49 sec<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n*getting back to the Da Vinci Code*<br \/>\nAt least this counts up as it&#8217;s supposed to: I&#8217;m on page 151<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought countdowns were supposed to count down (oh what a linguistic revelation! This is what my education has always aimed at&#8230;). My Half Life2 &#8220;Ready to play in approximately:&#8221; counter is counting up&#8230; 4253 mins 53 secs &#8212; 4254 mins 39 secs. It started from around 3700 so I was feeling optimistic. 4264 min [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.all-things-me.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}