{"id":31,"date":"2007-06-24T23:26:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2007-06-24T23:26:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T03:26:15","slug":"second-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/second-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <i>Snow Crash<\/i> review I briefly mentioned Second Life, which is a very weak implementation of Stephenson&#8217;s Metaverse. I downloaded Second Life in the offseason after reading a slew of articles about how popular it was becoming. I messed around with it for about 45 minutes. It sucked. It&#8217;s hard to use. It&#8217;s beyond irritating to look at. And there is absolutely no point to it. I uninstalled it around minute 46.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I finally got some value out of those otherwise wasted 45 minutes, because without them, I wouldn&#8217;t have appreciated <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/8301-10784_3-9733935-7.html?tag=nefd.only\">this hilarious parody<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Snow Crash review I briefly mentioned Second Life, which is a very weak implementation of Stephenson&#8217;s Metaverse. I downloaded Second Life in the offseason after reading a slew of articles about how popular it was becoming. I messed around with it for about 45 minutes. It sucked. It&#8217;s hard to use. It&#8217;s beyond [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}