{"id":821,"date":"2007-01-24T20:21:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T02:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2007\/01\/the-holidays-giveth\/"},"modified":"2007-01-24T20:21:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T02:21:35","slug":"the-holidays-giveth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/01\/the-holidays-giveth.html","title":{"rendered":"The holidays giveth &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and the holidays taketh away.<\/p>\n<p>Folks are all a-twitter that the temp powers from the Holiday Event (in particular the Rez and the Five Gold Rings), which were evidently always intended to be real-time duration, but were rolled out as game-time duration, <a href=\"http:\/\/boards.cityofheroes.com\/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Number=7413028&amp;an=&amp;page=&amp;vc=1\" target=\"_blank\">have been changed to real-time<\/a> (and poof!).<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.  Having the (very short) hold was kinda handy, and the rez was okay, but, jeez, to read some posts, you&#8217;d think the Devs had pissed in their corn flakes.<\/p>\n<p>There is, to be sure, some <em>minor<\/em> justification for all those folks who ground their dozen alts through all the Holiday mishes to get the powers, but, as someone noted, &#8220;12 days of game time&#8221; is 288 hours, which is enough for some folks to get to 50.  Which is hardly a &#8220;temp&#8221; power.<\/p>\n<p>This one (since I declined to invest all that time) get a big &#8220;Meh!&#8221; from me.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; and the holidays taketh away. Folks are all a-twitter that the temp powers from the Holiday Event (in particular the Rez and the Five Gold Rings), which were evidently always intended to be real-time duration, but were rolled out as game-time duration, have been changed to real-time (and poof!). Ah, well. Having the (very &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2007\/01\/the-holidays-giveth.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The holidays giveth &#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":352,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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\/352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}