{"id":232,"date":"2007-02-19T13:44:20","date_gmt":"2007-02-19T18:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/19\/reiley-and-i-play-war\/"},"modified":"2007-02-19T13:44:20","modified_gmt":"2007-02-19T18:44:20","slug":"reiley-and-i-play-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/reiley-and-i-play-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Reiley and I play war"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we decided that Reiley was old enough to play a Real Time Strategy war game with me. She and Wren have been playing multi-player Age of Empires ][: The Conquerers<\/strong> for a long time now, and they’re very skilled at map building and playing in a friendly mode. So Reiley kept up with me just fine. And it’s fortunately not too graphic, especially compared to many, many other games. You get to choose from a variety of actual civilizations, so it’s educational, too (yeah yeah, that’s the ticket).<\/p>\n

I sent over a few soldiers to attack her early, and she sent a sneaky counter-attack around the back of my colony. She’s a great opponent, and a really good sport to boot. There’s a little bit of guilt on my part, for 1) letting her play wargames and 2) for not holding back more when I’ve played the game a lot more than she has. But I guess there’s plenty of time for her to surpass her old man (and whip his butt). :><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday we decided that Reiley was old enough to play a Real Time Strategy war game with me. She and Wren have been playing multi-player Age of Empires ][: The Conquerers for a long time now, and they’re very skilled at map building and playing in a friendly mode. So Reiley kept up with me … Continue reading Reiley and I play war<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,2,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumption","category-daily-life","category-gaming","category-pc-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M0Zg-3K","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":256,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/beatnik-day-for-reiley-and-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":0},"title":"Beatnik day for Reiley and me","author":"m","date":"October 15, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Reiley and I had a fun day yesterday. Wrenny headed over to Grammy's for a sleepover, and mom painted most of the day. So Reiley and I had some adventures! We started off playing a big game of Age Of Empires ]I[ with the Warchiefs expansion, she and I facing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":238,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2007\/reiley-and-missy-encounter\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":1},"title":"Reiley and Missy encounter","author":"m","date":"March 28, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A week or so ago, Reiley was riding Ms. Debbie's usually well-behaved horse named \"Missy\". At the end of the lesson, Missy decided she would gallop hard back to the stable. On the way, Missy ran into another horse, and reared up. Reiley flew up and belly-flopped onto the ground,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":74,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2003\/future-pele\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":2},"title":"A Soccer Star Is Born!","author":"m","date":"April 29, 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"Reiley finished up her first soccer season with a perfect record! She got not one but TWO trophies, one for regular season and one for the tournament. Her coaches were great, being patient with her, and getting her in the game even at first when she ran more away from\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":110,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/two-fer\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":3},"title":"Friends Making Games!","author":"m","date":"May 13, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Sam Clifford's got his Heroes Incorporated boardgame onto store shelves! You can order a copy online from GameFest - if you look quickly you can see it still on the top of the newly released games list! And in similar but unrelated news, for Reiley's eighth (!) birthday, the day\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1615,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2012\/reiley-and-i-play-shoot-em-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":4},"title":"Reiley and I play shoot-em-up","author":"m","date":"August 8, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Played paintball with Reiley on Saturday, she'd been asking for a while and then Groupon provided the financial motivation with an all-day offer to play at Black River Paintball for half price. I was so intimidated and worried about it being too rough - I geared us up with baggy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All My Rowdy Friends"","block_context":{"text":"All My Rowdy Friends","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/all-my-rowdy-friends\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Black River Paintball","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thedigitalmachine.com\/images\/blog\/2012\/brpaintball.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":109,"url":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/2004\/the-big-events\/","url_meta":{"origin":232,"position":5},"title":"YMCA 2004 Guides and Princesses Outing","author":"m","date":"May 8, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Most of the tribe decided to caravan across the state from Raleigh to the camp, which is just shy of the coast, where the Neuse river dumps into the Atlantic Ocean. When we first converged in Raleigh, we found that every single dad had fully loaded the minivan - we\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Daily Life"","block_context":{"text":"Daily Life","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/category\/daily-life\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}