{"id":1292,"date":"2007-08-22T21:46:17","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2007-08-22T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T01:46:17","slug":"on-a-rare-and-unexpected-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1292","title":{"rendered":"On a Rare and Unexpected Find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through a box of office supplies just a little bit ago, and I came across something&#8230; unique.<\/p>\n<p>A <i>StarCraft: Ghost<\/i> mousepad.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine that Blizzard made a ton of these, seeing as the game was in near-perpetual development hell before finally being killed a year and a half ago.<\/p>\n<p>I have a mousepad for it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played <i>Ghost<\/i>, by the way.  Blizzard had it up and running at an EB Games vendor show a few years ago.  I&#8217;m thinking it was Vendor Show 2004, in Orlando, when I was sick as a gorram dog.  Because it was Vendor Show 2005 that I spent as much time as humanly possible playing <i>Age of Empires III<\/i> at the Microsoft booth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to check eBay and see what a <i>StarCraft: Ghost<\/i> mousepad might be going for.  I don&#8217;t have use for it &mdash; trackballs don&#8217;t need mousepads. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through a box of office supplies just a little bit ago, and I came across something&#8230; unique. A StarCraft: Ghost mousepad. I can&#8217;t imagine that Blizzard made a ton of these, seeing as the game was in near-perpetual development hell before finally being killed a year and a half ago. I have<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1292\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On a Rare and Unexpected Find&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[361,228],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games","tag-age-of-empires-iii","tag-eb-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}