{"id":898,"date":"2008-08-10T11:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T11:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/08\/10\/the-spirit-of-getting-your-tail-kicked\/"},"modified":"2008-08-10T11:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T11:37:00","slug":"the-spirit-of-getting-your-tail-kicked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2008\/08\/10\/the-spirit-of-getting-your-tail-kicked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spirit of Getting Your Tail Kicked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Players who participate in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwarcraft.com\/info\/events\/spiritofcompetition\/\" target=\"_new\">WoW Battlegrounds from the 8th to the 24th<\/a> get a Competitor&#8217;s Tabard with 4 linked colored rings. What could that refer to? Battleground winners *may* get a gold medal summoning a special dragon pet.<\/p>\n<p>So, I jumped into my first PvP Battleground ever today: &#8220;Warsong Gulch&#8221;, a capture-the-flag competition. Great Cthulhu, but that was lame. I see the enemy, and I&#8217;m preparing a spell &#8211; oh, I can&#8217;t move while casting, and they&#8217;ve run off. Okay, another enemy, and I&#8217;m using my lower-damage instant spell &#8211; oh, their warlock has &#8220;feared&#8221; me, and I will now run in circles while they zap me dead. Okay, I&#8217;m back, and I&#8217;ve infiltrated their base&#8230; oh, wait, the enemy Priest just killed me with a single instant spell. Yes, that&#8217;s right, their Healer class one-shotted me.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm, three captures for the Horde, and they&#8217;ve won. How many did we have? Oh. None at all.<\/p>\n<p>I have the tabard. I&#8217;ve lost interest in the pet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Players who participate in WoW Battlegrounds from the 8th to the 24th get a Competitor&#8217;s Tabard with 4 linked colored rings. What could that refer to? Battleground winners *may* get a gold medal summoning a special dragon pet. So, I jumped into my first PvP Battleground ever today: &#8220;Warsong Gulch&#8221;, a capture-the-flag competition. Great Cthulhu, [&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":[82],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-world-of-warcraft"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-eu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}