{"id":543,"date":"2006-02-16T22:51:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T04:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=167"},"modified":"2006-02-16T22:51:41","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T04:51:41","slug":"no-free-rides-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"No Free Rides Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-body\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/100619691\/\" title=\"Brian Ponders His Win\"  target=\"out\"><img style=\"border: #cccccc 2px solid\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/38\/100619691_2b7ed84a0f_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a picture of Brian after beating me at racquetball. He had no choice but to win because <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#334477\">World of Warcraft<\/font><\/a> was at stake. Just like in life, there are no free rides here. Brian told me today that he wants to start playing <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#334477\">World of Warcraft<\/font><\/a> because all of his geeky buddies at work are playing it. The game costs $50 and it&#8217;s going to cost $200 a year in addition to that because of the montly service fee. Obviously, this is going to be a much larger expense than we are prepared to tackle. Specially after having paid a huge sum of money to Uncle Sam. I mean, I wouldn&#8217;t even let him get <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ogame.org\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#334477\">Ogame Commander<\/font><\/a> back in our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ogame.org\/\"  target=\"out\"><font color=\"#334477\">Ogame<\/font><\/a> playing days. And that was only $3 a month!<\/p>\n<p>Not wanting to just say no out-right, I posed the following challenge: beat me at racquetball today and you can have your game for one year. Once the year is up, we will have to reevaluate naturally. Anyway, I was pretty confident that I would win. I failed to take desperation into account, though.<\/p>\n<p>Brian gave it his all and took me to the third game. He beat me 15-13. I cannot whine, because he beat me fair and square. Some of his strategies were questionable, but what can you do? He is desperate.<\/p>\n<p>I hope he enjoys his game because now we don&#8217;t have any grocery money! Someone donate to us!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a picture of Brian after beating me at racquetball. He had no choice but to win because World of Warcraft was at stake. Just like in life, there are no free rides here. Brian told me today that he wants to start playing World of Warcraft because all of his geeky buddies at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}