{"id":2153,"date":"2020-06-30T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2020-06-30T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T14:29:09","slug":"i-spent-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/?p=2153","title":{"rendered":"I spent last week&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>picking my way through the ruin of the Last of Us Part II. I wanted to know what happened to Joel and Ellie, but all the wonder&#8217;s gone, the phantom of life that made Ellie special. The developer talks of the audience experiencing the game rather than enjoying it, but I came away mourning my lost hours and the lost potential of the characters I knew from playing the first game. I picked up <em>Factotum<\/em> for some light relief, curled pages of another wanderer and his nickel beers and flophouse ravings but at least the old tramp has his dreams, a rheumy eye fixed on the stars. Then I drove over to a games shop and sold my copy of the disc, it felt good to move on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200626_212430-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2154 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200626_212430-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200626_212430-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/IMG_20200626_212430-1-300x203.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>picking my way through the ruin of the Last of Us Part II. I wanted to know what happened to Joel and Ellie, but all the wonder&#8217;s gone, the phantom of life that made Ellie special. The developer talks of the audience experiencing the game rather than enjoying it, but I came away mourning my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-henry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrybrook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}