{"id":702,"date":"2006-10-18T00:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-17T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2006-10-18T00:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-17T14:13:00","slug":"adventures-in-rl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/adventures-in-rl\/","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in RL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dwellonit.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/adventures-in-rl-day-six.html\">As Tateru says<\/a>, Sunday night saw a Brisbane SL RL get together, featuring the RL people behind Tateru, Sladen, Lucy and me. (Sorry the circumstances weren&#8217;t more festive for Tat.)<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we all had a good time. Yes, it was distinctly odd to make an RL connection to the people behind the avatars. I&#8217;ve known Tateru since I rezzed, just over a year ago, and it&#8217;s great to be able to extend a friendship (and make new ones) beyond the screen. To talk at normal human speed instead of finger speed. To be able to simply have a chat to a person sitting just *there*, because they&#8217;re not drowning in Live Help IMs.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, we can&#8217;t teleport, fly or ride hoverbikes in RL, but&#8230; hell. It&#8217;s REAL life. Much as I love my second life, the sound of clinking drinks is always better in real life. Cheers, everyone. See you on the other side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Tateru says, Sunday night saw a Brisbane SL RL get together, featuring the RL people behind Tateru, Sladen, Lucy and me. (Sorry the circumstances weren&#8217;t more festive for Tat.) Yes, we all had a good time. Yes, it was distinctly odd to make an RL connection to the people behind the avatars. I&#8217;ve known &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/adventures-in-rl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Adventures in RL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"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=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}