{"id":218,"date":"2008-02-13T21:23:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/the-crack-of-flash-games\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T21:29:17","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T04:29:17","slug":"the-crack-of-flash-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/02\/13\/the-crack-of-flash-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Crack of Flash Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had to skip my first 376 lecture today.  There was a perfectly socially-responsible reason for it that I&#8217;ll try to write about on Friday.  For now, I&#8217;m tired, and annoyingly addicted to American Idol.<\/p>\n<p>So for today, I will present the crack cocaine of Flash-based online games: <a href=\"http:\/\/onemorelevel.com\/game\/spin_the_black_circle\">Spin the Black Circle<\/a>.  Play it.  Do it now.  There is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BqZvLV40ysA\">runthrough on YouTube<\/a> if you&#8217;re really stuck on a level (but try to keep the cheating to a minimum).<\/p>\n<p>I finished it (level 24) over the weekend.  Kat was making impressive progress through it the last time I checked in.  Any game that can captivate both Kat and I must have something going for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had to skip my first 376 lecture today. There was a perfectly socially-responsible reason for it that I&#8217;ll try to write about on Friday. For now, I&#8217;m tired, and annoyingly addicted to American Idol. So for today, I will present the crack cocaine of Flash-based online games: Spin the Black Circle. Play it. Do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}