{"id":8526,"date":"2013-12-02T21:17:51","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T20:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=8526"},"modified":"2013-12-03T01:26:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T00:26:50","slug":"if-your-gaming-goes-retro-head-to-retro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/12\/if-your-gaming-goes-retro-head-to-retro\/","title":{"rendered":"If your gaming goes retro, head to The Retro Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the back of updates, frustration, micro-transactions, and DRM, friend of the parish Jason Evangelo hits Ebay, grabs some old gaming systems, and launches &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theretroretreat.com\/\">Retro Retreat<\/a>&#8216;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So, here we are. The Retro Retreat. A chronicle of the joys and discoveries to come, and probably an account of lessons learned and dollars lost along the way.\u00a0Will this card-carrying and outspoken member of the PC Master Race let his membership lapse? I can\u2019t say just yet, but something has undoubtedly changed, and maybe this blog will lead me to the answers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One for the bookmarks. I wonder if I should send him an N-Gage&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the back of updates, frustration, micro-transactions, and DRM, friend of the parish Jason Evangelo hits Ebay, grabs some old gaming systems, and launches &#8216;Retro Retreat&#8216;: So, here we are. The Retro Retreat. A chronicle of the joys and discoveries to come, and probably an account of lessons learned and dollars lost along the way.\u00a0Will this card-carrying and outspoken member of the PC Master Race let his membership lapse? I can\u2019t say just yet, but something has undoubtedly changed, and maybe this blog will lead me to the answers. One for the bookmarks. I wonder if I should send him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[23,25],"tags":[4900,4899,4901],"class_list":["post-8526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-link-log","tag-jason-evangelo","tag-retro-gaming","tag-the-retro-retreat","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-2dw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}