{"id":32263,"date":"2013-01-21T19:14:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/playing-ingress.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T19:14:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T02:14:18","slug":"playing-ingress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/playing-ingress.html","title":{"rendered":"Playing Ingress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#39;m one of <i>those<\/i> folks in the beta of Google&#39;s overlayed-reality game Ingress (<a href=\"http:\/\/ingress.com\" class=\"ot-anchor\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ingress.com<\/a>). \u00a0And here&#39;s my impression after a month-and-change of playing.<\/p>\n<p>(Much of the article is directed to other Ingress players, so some of the terminology\u00a0may be obscure. Apologies for that.)<\/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:\/\/images1-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?url=https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Day-of-the-Dove-corridor-fight-300x227.jpg&#038;container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;rewriteMime=image\/*&#038;refresh=31536000&#038;resize_h=150&#038;resize_w=150&#038;no_expand=1' 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='https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2013\/01\/ingress-play-thoughts-after-a-month.html'>Ingress \u2013 Play thoughts after a month<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u201cIn the heart. In the head. I won\u2019t stay dead. Next time I\u2019ll do the same to you. I\u2019ll kill you. And it goes on, the good old game of war, pawn against pawn! Stopping the ba&#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\/YDWbZfcbKQf' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I&#39;m one of those folks in the beta of Google&#39;s overlayed-reality game Ingress (http:\/\/ingress.com). \u00a0And here&#39;s my impression after a month-and-change of playing. (Much of the article is directed to other Ingress players, so some of the terminology\u00a0may be obscure. Apologies for that.) Embedded Link Ingress \u2013 Play thoughts after a month \u201cIn the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/21\/playing-ingress.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Playing Ingress&#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_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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32263","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":136863,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/07\/08\/ingress-the-animated-series.html","url_meta":{"origin":32263,"position":0},"title":"Ingress, the &#8230; Animated Series?","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 8-Jul-18 10:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"I was, um, very big into Ingress when it kicked off and for several months thereafter. 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