{"id":20373,"date":"2023-02-13T19:17:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2023-02-13T19:19:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T00:19:05","slug":"a-couple-remarks-on-the-last-of-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20373","title":{"rendered":"A few remarks on &#8220;The Last of Us&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"Fungus among us!\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/doncoyote\/52687843904\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52687843904_17b8d52869.jpg\" alt=\"Fungus among us!\" width=\"500\" height=\"499\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First, a general strong thumbs up. I&#8217;m currently in L.A. with the west coast branch of the family and they&#8217;ve been watching, so I caught up (eps 1 &#8211; 3) before the post Super Bowl group viewing brought me current last night. Good characters, good story-line(s), good monsters. Yay!<\/p>\n<p>Second, I&#8217;m glad that I watched episode 3 alone. No spoilers, but it really moved me. There was uglycrying.<\/p>\n<p>Third, and finally, y&#8217;all will want to get busy schmoozing me, because as soon as I figure out the connection between <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/376\">this blog post<\/a> and the THoU video game and then win $$$$ in my intellectual property suit I&#8217;m gonna be rolling in dough. Fabulously wealthy, I tell you! The key passage:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20374\" src=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Capture.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"789\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Capture.png 789w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Capture-300x138.png 300w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Capture-768x352.png 768w, http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Capture-500x229.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blog post went up July 14, 2008 &amp; The Last of Us video game began development in 2009. My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=H4xIEKZKrFk\">simple country lawyer<\/a> will make mincemeat of them,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, a general strong thumbs up. I&#8217;m currently in L.A. with the west coast branch of the family and they&#8217;ve been watching, so I caught up (eps 1 &#8211; 3) before the post Super Bowl group viewing brought me current &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/20373\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creatures"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-5iB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20379,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions\/20379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}