{"id":206,"date":"2007-01-13T01:41:13","date_gmt":"2007-01-13T05:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=206"},"modified":"2007-01-13T01:44:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T05:44:01","slug":"and-i-thought-mmorpgs-were-lame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/and-i-thought-mmorpgs-were-lame\/","title":{"rendered":"And I thought MMORPGs were lame&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I only recently became aware of something called <a href=\"http:\/\/secondlife.com\/\">Second Life<\/a>.  If you haven&#8217;t heard of it either, it&#8217;s basically a sims-like virtual universe in which you create an identity and lead a virtual life.  You can even create any object you can dream up.  The catch is, this place has it&#8217;s own economy that you get into by trading in real money for virtual money or property.  That&#8217;s right, people are actually buying virtual stuff in a virtual world and living virtual lives.  In fact, as I&#8217;m looking at the page now, they claim people have spent $1.2M (real money) in the last 24 hours alone!  And I thought Everquest addictions were bad.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entrepreneur.com\/startingabusiness\/businessideas\/article172768.html\">This excerpt from entrepreneur.com<\/a> says it all:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&quot;Indeed, 2007 may prove to be a watershed year for Lokke: He&#8217;s quitting his 17-year job as a supermarket manager to make the 50 hours he already spends in Second Life as the owner of Crucial Creations his true, full-time career.&quot;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  I can&#8217;t help but wonder what&#8217;s wrong with these people.  I barely have time for my real life, let alone a virtual one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only recently became aware of something called Second Life. If you haven&#8217;t heard of it either, it&#8217;s basically a sims-like virtual universe in which you create an identity and lead a virtual life. You can even create any object &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2007\/01\/13\/and-i-thought-mmorpgs-were-lame\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}