{"id":61754,"date":"2020-06-27T09:45:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=61754"},"modified":"2020-06-27T09:45:45","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T13:45:45","slug":"what-is-portal-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/what-is-portal-anyway\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Portal, Anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first-person shooter with no goons to kill?<br \/>\nA maze where you follow the rat?<br \/>\nA puzzle, a lesson in bending the rules?<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s much more to\u00a0<em>Portal<\/em> than that.<\/p>\n<p>A subtle tutorial, learning through play,<br \/>\nA guide with a memorable voice<br \/>\nThat gives you instructions each step of the way<br \/>\nBut will you obey her? Your choice.<\/p>\n<p>No customisation, no highscore, no lives<br \/>\nYou failed? Well just try, try again.<br \/>\nAnd when you succeed, there&#8217;s no victory parade<br \/>\nJust your satisfaction remains.<\/p>\n<p>So why should you play it, apart from the memes?<br \/>\n(Remember, the Cake is a Lie)<br \/>\nUntil you&#8217;ve been Chell, you just can&#8217;t understand<br \/>\nWhy this game, and its fans, never die<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s much more to <em>Portal<\/em> than pellets and traps<br \/>\nOr turrets around every bend.<br \/>\nAnd once you&#8217;ve survived all that GLaDOS can do,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll just love the song at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first-person shooter with no goons to kill? A maze where you follow the rat? A puzzle, a lesson in bending the rules? There&#8217;s much more to\u00a0Portal than that. A subtle tutorial, learning through play, A guide with a memorable voice That gives you instructions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2137,3482],"class_list":["post-61754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half-marathon-poem","tag-hour1","tag-portal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62318,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61754\/revisions\/62318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}