{"id":2524,"date":"2009-02-15T03:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2009-02-15T03:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-14T19:03:18","slug":"flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/15\/flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights I was having a match on <a href=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/12\/slam-dunks\/\">NBA 2K9<\/a>. I was playing the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boston_Celtics\">Boston Celtics<\/a> against the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_lakers\">LA Lakers<\/a>, but it was fun seeing Ling\u2019s reactions as she watched me. She squealed each time <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kobe_Bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a> dunked the ball into the net&#8230; just too bad Bryant wasn&#8217;t on my side. I lost the match 80-54 LOL.<\/p>\n<p>Now, there\u2019s another recent game that I\u2019m really interested to get for Ling: it\u2019s a Playstation downloadable game that\u2019s about\u2026 hold your breadth now\u2026 about flowers and pollination! The game has garnered attention and quite a bit of interest as it\u2019s quite the deviation from the usual blowing stuff up. Reviewers have heaped praise on the game: that&#8217;s uplifting, surrealistic, very powerful, and just a joy to play.<\/p>\n<p>Even Matt&#8217;s interested in the game.:)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-flowers-01\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blogflowers01.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-flowers-01\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" title=\"blog-flowers-02\" src=\"https:\/\/chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/blogflowers02.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"blog-flowers-02\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of nights I was having a match on NBA 2K9. I was playing the Boston Celtics against the LA Lakers, but it was fun seeing Ling\u2019s reactions as she watched me. She squealed each time Kobe Bryant dunked<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-read-more\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2009\/02\/15\/flowers\/\">Read More<span class=\"cleanwp-sr-only\">  Flowers<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-home","category-entertainment","tag-ps3","wpcat-6-id","wpcat-10-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}