{"id":21561,"date":"2011-07-13T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21561"},"modified":"2011-07-13T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T23:50:09","slug":"greatsword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/greatsword.html","title":{"rendered":"Greatsword!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow!  It&#8217;s a +5 Two-Handed Sword of Popeiling! My inner D&#038;D Barbarian is capering with glee.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_hfLZozBVpM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I did expect the guy to eventually say, &#8220;So, what do I have to do to get you to walk away with one of these babies today?&#8221;  Never ran into a guy at a weapons shop quite this hard-sell.<\/p>\n<p><small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/07\/13\/the-majesty-of-the-g.html?dlvrit=36761\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! It&#8217;s a +5 Two-Handed Sword of Popeiling! My inner D&#038;D Barbarian is capering with glee. I did expect the guy to eventually say, &#8220;So, what do I have to do to get you to walk away with one of these babies today?&#8221; Never ran into a guy at a weapons shop quite this hard-sell. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/13\/greatsword.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greatsword!&#8221;<\/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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49348,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/23\/the-only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-oh-wait.html","url_meta":{"origin":21561,"position":0},"title":"The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is &#8230; oh, wait","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Jan-15 8:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Guy A in parking lot sees Guy B getting out of his car and putting a gun under his jacket. 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