{"id":2845,"date":"2017-08-11T12:08:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2017-08-11T12:09:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T20:09:57","slug":"2845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2017\/08\/11\/2845\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/brendanadkins\/35978091926\/in\/album-72157686457006165\/\" title=\"Certain aspects of Seattle are borderline acceptable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm5.staticflickr.com\/4298\/35978091926_ec20285e07_c.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Certain aspects of Seattle are borderline acceptable\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I have attended Go Play NW every summer that I&#8217;ve lived in Portland, and it&#8217;s always one of the best parts of my year. The final game I played there, back in July, was a hastily assembled impromptu session of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blades_in_the_Dark\">Blades in the Dark<\/a>&mdash;a fantasy-urban-pseudo-19th-century heist game. I had left the afternoon slot empty for myself, hoping for a chance to play a game with one of my favorite Matthews, and when he finally rolled up an hour later he had a whole crew of Californians and one new guy they had swept up with them, named Randall.<\/p>\n<p>Blades was a new system to all the players, but most of them were acquainted with games in its general mode; Randall, meanwhile, had only played D&#038;D in the past, and was affably along for the ride. I liked him very much, and we had a lot of fun. Afterwards, waiting for my friends to gather so we could head home, I talked to him about his experience over the weekend. It turned out he hadn&#8217;t exactly planned to attend the con; he was in town for a family wedding, and had just searched for interesting things to do while he was in the area.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So you&#8217;re not from Seattle?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No,&#8221; he said, &#8220;I&#8217;m from Guam.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I really hope that, in a year or so, I have to struggle to remember why I&#8217;d be thinking about him today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have attended Go Play NW every summer that I&#8217;ve lived in Portland, and it&#8217;s always one of the best parts of my year. The final game I played there, back in July, was a hastily assembled impromptu session of Blades in the Dark&mdash;a fantasy-urban-pseudo-19th-century heist game. I had left the afternoon slot empty for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-angst"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}