{"id":230,"date":"2003-05-19T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-19T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/05\/19\/celestial-light-and-magic\/"},"modified":"2003-05-19T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-19T09:56:00","slug":"celestial-light-and-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2003\/05\/19\/celestial-light-and-magic\/","title":{"rendered":"Celestial Light and Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having tried twice, this Thursday and Saturday, I&#8217;ve discovered that I can&#8217;t go to see The Matrix Reloaded without rain coming from the sky in bucket loads and lightning searing my retinas away. Apparently, it&#8217;s an extra special effect arranged by Warner Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>I shaved my beard off this weekend, just to re-introduce the skin of my lower face to the outside world. So far, the reviews of this new (quite temporary) look are mixed and a bit negative.<\/p>\n<p>Happy news I&#8217;ve had for a while, but not posted; I&#8217;m running the Crimson Skies marquee for WizKids on June 7, at Xtremes in Tanglewood Mall. Time to dig out Commader Coalsack&#8217;s (and the Rabbiteer&#8217;s) old rocket backpack! I&#8217;ve also got some venues interested in having me Battlemaster for them, so it looks like I will be able to fulfill WizKids&#8217; minimum activity requirements.<\/p>\n<p>Had some thoughts this weekend on gaming personas and how they relate to the player who maintains them, but that&#8217;s a lengthy, introspective post that is going to need some more thought before I put it up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having tried twice, this Thursday and Saturday, I&#8217;ve discovered that I can&#8217;t go to see The Matrix Reloaded without rain coming from the sky in bucket loads and lightning searing my retinas away. Apparently, it&#8217;s an extra special effect arranged by Warner Brothers. I shaved my beard off this weekend, just to re-introduce the skin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,49,30,51],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-costuming","tag-gaming","tag-movies","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-3I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}