{"id":1665,"date":"2010-01-11T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T22:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2010-01-11T09:01:07","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T23:01:07","slug":"weekend-of-catan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Weekend of Catan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a new board game this weekend.\u00a0 I&#8217;d heard a lot about Settlers of Catan before but never got around to playing it.\u00a0 We picked it up from Mind Games over the weekend and played a couple of rounds with Jen and Dominic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1666\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1666\" title=\"settlers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settlers.jpg\" alt=\"settlers\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settlers.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/settlers-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Settlers of Catan<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Turns out its pretty awesome and I&#8217;m not just saying that because I won the first game.\u00a0 The game doesn&#8217;t take too long to play (an hour each round) and had a decent balance between luck, strategy and diplomacy.\u00a0 It put me back into a boardgamey mood.\u00a0 One of these days I need to get around to checking out eBay to see if there are any copies of <em>HeroQuest<\/em> floating around.\u00a0 That game was the best.<\/p>\n<p>Also traded in some old <em>Guitar Hero<\/em> games to get <em>Bayonetta<\/em> for free from JB, and also a copy of <em>Dark City: Directors Cut<\/em> on Blu Ray for a measley $15 bucks.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1667\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1667\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1667\" title=\"bayonetta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bayonetta1.jpg\" alt=\"bayonetta\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bayonetta1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/bayonetta1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1667\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bayonetta<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1668\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1668\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1668\" title=\"darkcity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkcity1.jpg\" alt=\"darkcity\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkcity1.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/darkcity1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark City: Directors Cut<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ooh, and I found myself a new book to read over the weekend.\u00a0 I&#8217;m trying out my first Haruki Murakami book <em>Kafka On The Shore<\/em>.\u00a0 So far its very strange and I don&#8217;t really know whats going on.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1669\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1669\" title=\"kafka\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kafka.jpg\" alt=\"Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kafka.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/kafka-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up a new board game this weekend.\u00a0 I&#8217;d heard a lot about Settlers of Catan before but never got around to playing it.\u00a0 We picked it up from Mind Games over the weekend and played a couple of rounds with Jen and Dominic. Turns out its pretty awesome and I&#8217;m not just saying that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[480,478,2399,479,481],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-bayonetta","tag-boardgames","tag-book-club","tag-dark-city","tag-haruki-murakami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}