{"id":24892,"date":"2016-10-23T23:56:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=24892"},"modified":"2016-10-23T23:56:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T22:56:11","slug":"298-whats-it-like-to-spend-time-playing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/23\/298-whats-it-like-to-spend-time-playing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"298: What’s it like to spend time playing games?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not a massive gamer, but I have spent a lot of today relaxing and playing two games from my past: Sid Meier’s Railroads! and Sid Meier’s Pirates!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sid Meier’s Pirates!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sid Meier’s Railroads!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Both are games that I have spent many hours playing on over the years, and when I recently rediscovered them on Steam, I had to get hold of them. Today was the first time I’ve been able to dedicate some time – much to Mrs Pitts’ annoyance – to sitting and doing nothing but faffing around with them.<\/p>\n

As John Lennon (I think) once said, time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. I certainly enjoyed my day these two playing games!<\/p>\n\n

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I’m not a massive gamer, but I have spent a lot of today relaxing and playing two games from my past: Sid Meier’s Railroads! and Sid Meier’s Pirates! Both are games that I have spent many hours playing on over the years, and when I recently rediscovered them on Steam, I had to get hold […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[3355,3],"tags":[1218,2307,2375,4003,4001,3999,4000,4002],"class_list":["post-24892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3355","category-awesomeness","tag-games","tag-past","tag-pirates","tag-railroads","tag-sid-meier","tag-sid-meiers-pirates","tag-sid-meiers-railroads","tag-steam","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OeSW-6tu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24895,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24892\/revisions\/24895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasjpitts.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}