{"id":1268,"date":"2008-09-24T13:38:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2008-09-24T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-24T17:39:46","slug":"peggle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/24\/peggle\/","title":{"rendered":"Peggle"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rarely plug any games here, but since I accidentially stumbled on a good one, I thought I would pass it along with a warning to never never play it. \u00c2\u00a0I mean it, never ever click on the Popcap<\/a> website and think “I have 10 minutes to spare, why not play a little Peggle<\/a>?” \u00c2\u00a0To do so is to fall into a pit of candy-coloured time sink-ing fun. \u00c2\u00a0This game is a brightly coloured soother that I burbled and cooed over for an hour last night without meaning to. \u00c2\u00a0It’s digital crack, a perfectly crafted thing, more of a fun toy than a game. \u00c2\u00a0Don’t touch it, I mean it.<\/p>\n

So, once you have ignored my warning and fall into a hole in the space-time continuum, don’t come crawling to me, ok? \u00c2\u00a0I’m busy trying to get this level finished off…<\/p>\n

Wikipedia<\/a> says Peggle was named one of the “5 Most Addictive Video Games of All Time”…. Wikipedia never lies, so don’t click it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I rarely plug any games here, but since I accidentially stumbled on a good one, I thought I would pass it along with a warning to never never play it. \u00c2\u00a0I mean it, never ever click on the Popcap website … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/siGNU-peggle","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}