{"id":27651,"date":"2012-04-29T20:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/29\/movies-games-and-where-it-might-all-be-leading.html"},"modified":"2012-04-29T20:44:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T02:44:51","slug":"movies-games-and-where-it-might-all-be-leading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/29\/movies-games-and-where-it-might-all-be-leading.html","title":{"rendered":"Movies, Games, and Where It Might All Be Leading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would simply <i>pshaw<\/i> this, if someone hadn&#39;t made a movie out of freaking <i>Battleship<\/i> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fi.crackedcdn.com%2Fphpimages%2Fphotoshop%2F8%2F7%2F1%2F45871.jpg%3Fv%3D1' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/photoplasty_174_if-every-childrens-game-was-turned-into-movie\/'>If Every Children&#39;s Game Was Turned Into A Movie<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRemember when they made a movie out of the board game \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/EwpdpchFoFD' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would simply pshaw this, if someone hadn&#39;t made a movie out of freaking Battleship &#8230; Embedded Link If Every Children&#39;s Game Was Turned Into A Movie Remember when they made a movie out of the board game Google+: View post on Google+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40927,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/30\/game-i-just-want-the-movie-part-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":27651,"position":0},"title":"Game? 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