{"id":1215,"date":"2008-09-01T17:33:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2008-09-01T17:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T23:33:24","slug":"pax-termath-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/01\/pax-termath-08\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX-termath &#8217;08"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back and we had a great time at the show.\u00a0I don&#8217;t have the words to\u00a0describe it but the\u00a0big speech &#8211; though good, I think &#8211; was\u00a0a bit impacted by some unexpected emotion.\u00a0I mean, last time I was in the\u00a0building, talking about that stuff, to those kinds of people &#8211; I was just one week away from a massive heart attack. Tomorrow is the\u00a0&#8220;anniversary&#8221; and there&#8217;s a part of me that&#8217;s ignoring it and another part that sees it as the end of\u00a0a long, long, tunnel.\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a harrowing year &#8211; time to\u00a0put that behind me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start blogging about it in earnest on Wednesday morning about PAX. Lots of good stories to tell. Expect stuff from Cary and Colleen, maybe even sooner.\u00a0 I hope\u00a0we&#8217;ve found some new fans.\u00a0 Oh, and if I haven&#8217;t overloaded your heart strings yet I&#8217;d like to add that tomorrow is also my parents wedding anniversary (yeah, they almost lost their boy on their wedding day) and to make things worse, my paternal grandmother had a minor stroke.\u00a0 Please keep her in your thoughts during her recovery (it was fairly minor but she is in her mid-80&#8217;s). Ah, another September. The Bub blood, though strong and full of love,\u00a0betrays once again! Say a prayer for the GamerOma*!<\/p>\n<p>For now?\u00a0 Skip fast food this week. Eat healthy,\u00a0 Play Wii Fit and Dance Dance Revolution.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>*Oma is grandma in German. I call her grandma, but we have the kids call her Oma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back and we had a great time at the show.\u00a0I don&#8217;t have the words to\u00a0describe it but the\u00a0big speech &#8211; though good, I think &#8211; was\u00a0a bit impacted by some unexpected emotion.\u00a0I mean, last time I was in the\u00a0building, talking about that stuff, to those kinds of people &#8211; I was just one week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}