{"id":30374,"date":"2012-09-27T13:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/once-again-i-miss-a-chance-to-be-cool.html"},"modified":"2012-09-27T13:35:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T19:35:05","slug":"once-again-i-miss-a-chance-to-be-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/once-again-i-miss-a-chance-to-be-cool.html","title":{"rendered":"Once again I miss a chance to be cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just as <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103748887870095862080\" class=\"proflink\" oid=\"103748887870095862080\">Les Jenkins<\/a><\/span>\u00a0invites me to try out WoW, it turns into something no longer cool. \u00a0Story of my life, man.<\/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='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Fimages_blogs%2Fgamelife%2F2012%2F09%2Fwowx4-screenshot-03-full650-300x150.jpg' 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.wired.com\/gamelife\/2012\/09\/mists-of-pandaria\/?utm_source=googleplus&#038;utm_medium=socialmedia&#038;utm_campaign=googleplusclickthru'>World of Warcraft Has Lost Its Cool | Game|Life | Wired.com<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIt wasn&#39;t that long ago that Blizzard&#39;s massively multiplayer online game seemed poised on the edge of becoming something much more than just an extremely popular pastime of geeks and shut-ins. But wi&#8230;\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\/TZQhaN5x3RQ' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just as +Les Jenkins\u00a0invites me to try out WoW, it turns into something no longer cool. \u00a0Story of my life, man. Embedded Link World of Warcraft Has Lost Its Cool | Game|Life | Wired.com It wasn&#39;t that long ago that Blizzard&#39;s massively multiplayer online game seemed poised on the edge of becoming something much more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/once-again-i-miss-a-chance-to-be-cool.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Once again I miss a chance to be cool&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-30374","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":206,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/29\/so_uncool.html","url_meta":{"origin":30374,"position":0},"title":"So uncool","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 29-May-03 6:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Katherine insists that she is not cool. 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