{"id":7,"date":"2002-11-11T22:39:24","date_gmt":"2002-11-12T04:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2016-07-16T22:14:26","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T03:14:26","slug":"brians-new-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=7","title":{"rendered":"Brian&#8217;s New Video Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brian finally got his copy of GTA Vice City.\u00a0 For someone who&#8217;s almost thirty, he&#8217;s still stuck on playing video games.\u00a0 I hate that the game is so violent, but it is pretty good.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll at least give it that. Brian has been waiting for the game to be released for a while, too.\u00a0 Everytime a new shipment comes into Best Buy, the games sell out within minutes.\u00a0 Almost even before they hit the shelves.\u00a0 It&#8217;s insane.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never thought a game could be this popular. I was at Best Buy last week looking for the 100 pack of Imation CD RWs that were on sale for $8 and asked them if they had the game.\u00a0 None on the shelf, some in the back for rain checks.\u00a0 Brian had a rain check, but they wouldn&#8217;t give it to me without the slip.\u00a0 Desperate, we did some high speed munching at Applebee&#8217;s and headed out to Best Buy to purchase the game on Brian&#8217;s 30-minute lunch break. (Brian had the slip in his car, luckily enough.) It&#8217;s amazing what an ounce of determination can accomplish. Anyway, now that he&#8217;s got the game and the handy-dandy strategy guide in his greasy little hands, Brian keeps staying up till four in the morning playing it in the bedroom.\u00a0 He purchased a controller extender specifically for playing his games in bed.\u00a0 Sounds like something from the &#8220;you know you&#8217;re a gaming addict..&#8221; list.\u00a0 That&#8217;s Brian for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian finally got his copy of GTA Vice City.\u00a0 For someone who&#8217;s almost thirty, he&#8217;s still stuck on playing video games.\u00a0 I hate that the game is so violent, but it is pretty good.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll at least give it that. Brian has been waiting for the game to be released for a while, too.\u00a0 Everytime [&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":[2476,2730,550],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"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=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14930,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/14930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}