{"id":308,"date":"2003-03-23T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-03-23T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=308"},"modified":"2003-03-23T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-03-23T23:00:00","slug":"308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/?p=308","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nice weekend.  Finally finished playing Europa Universalis yesterday (the last sixty years of the game were really boring because I exhausted the tech tree and had pretty much unlimited cash so I bought friends all over, conquered India, and also built a micro-empire north of China running west all the way to the Black Sea.<\/p>\n<p>Moved on to Hearts of Iron, the sequel to Europa Universalis by the same folks:  a WWII simulation.  Mostly similar mechanics, but with a much more complex economic model.  Started playing as Germany and within a year had run out of oil to fly my planes.<\/p>\n<p>Today after church we went curling.  It was actually a lot of fun:  we got lessons in how to throw the rocks without falling down (much), and how to sweep, and how to keep score.  It&#8217;s a lot harder than it looks.  Next step:  to challenge the Christ Church Deer Park choir to a friendly match, and beat them.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nice weekend. Finally finished playing Europa Universalis yesterday (the last sixty years of the game were really boring because I exhausted the tech tree and had pretty much unlimited cash so I bought friends all over, conquered India, and also built a micro-empire north of China running west all the way to the Black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tomleslie.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}