{"id":520,"date":"2009-05-11T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2009-05-11T12:37:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:37:00","slug":"520","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/520\/","title":{"rendered":"When I Were A Lad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia time! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xi0RPiAbs_w\">The Adventure Game<\/a> was an early reality-type show in the UK. Instead of physical challenges, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t13RVUnxjgU&#038;feature=related\">puzzles, often quite difficult<\/a>, set by &#8220;aliens from Arg&#8221;. Earnest, for kids, but still much more interesting than today&#8217;s rough equivalent or anything involving slime. At the end of the show, you had to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6HLX2weZfkA\">walk across a grid, trying to avoid a vortex you couldn&#8217;t see<\/a>. Hit the vortex? Walk home to Earth. Love it, need it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nostalgia time! The Adventure Game was an early reality-type show in the UK. Instead of physical challenges, there were puzzles, often quite difficult, set by &#8220;aliens from Arg&#8221;. Earnest, for kids, but still much more interesting than today&#8217;s rough equivalent or anything involving slime. At the end of the show, you had to walk across &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/520\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">When I Were A Lad<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}