{"id":2797,"date":"2013-08-15T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/?p=2797"},"modified":"2013-08-15T13:30:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T20:30:01","slug":"ingress-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2013\/08\/ingress-hiatus.html","title":{"rendered":"Ingress Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You learn interesting things while on vacation.<\/p>\n

I mean, it’s a pain in the butt when you get back and all those fiddly little habits of the day have to be relearned. \u00a0“Wow, it’s been a few weeks — I almost forgot to do the dishes.” \u00a0You know — that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

But sometimes that’s a good thing to have happen. It can make you aware of habits you don’t want to re-acquire.<\/p>\n

Like obsessively playing Ingress.<\/p>\n

I decided, on returning, that I really don’t want to spend all my commute time on the train hacking portals at each stop. \u00a0I don’t want to spend my lunches tracking down farms to harvest from or links to smash. \u00a0I don’t want to have my phone on at my work desk hacking at the portals in the building below.<\/p>\n

I’d rather read. And walk. And work.<\/p>\n

Plus, I’ve gotten tired of the Ingress app’s big memory footprint — a footprint that ensures that if you do almost anything else on your phone, Android will swap out Ingress and when you go back in to play you’ll have to restart the app. \u00a0A minute or two later …<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>When I’m reluctant to check Twitter — or answer an IM — because it will interfere with Ingress running on my phone, there’s a problem there.<\/p>\n

Now, all that having been said … Ingress is still fun. And I enjoy the community, and enjoy talking about the game, and have been enjoying building up the portal infrastructure around the Denver area. \u00a0I’m not quitting the game, or uninstalling it, or anything like that.<\/p>\n

But, for now … I’m still on vacation from it. \u00a0For the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You learn interesting things while on vacation. I mean, it’s a pain in the butt when you get back and all those fiddly little habits of the day have to be relearned. \u00a0“Wow, it’s been a few weeks — I almost forgot to do the dishes.” \u00a0You know — that sort of thing. But sometimes … Continue reading “Ingress Hiatus”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ingress","category-true-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2797\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}