{"id":870,"date":"2010-07-27T17:16:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=870"},"modified":"2014-02-23T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T03:38:07","slug":"damned-futureshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=870","title":{"rendered":"Damned FutureShop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got suckered in to preordering StarCraft 2 from FutureShop back in May. I was hoping that I could elect to do an in-store pickup, but that wasn&#8217;t an option: it had to be shipped. I remember fondly WarCraft 3 arriving first thing in the morning on release day when I preordered it from FutureShop back in the day, so I had high hopes that it would go just as smooth for StarCraft 2. <\/p>\n<p>And, of course&#8230; the shipment didn&#8217;t arrive. I spent <em>all day<\/em> staking out the door, reading on the front porch for most of the afternoon to make sure the sneaky mailman wouldn&#8217;t tap quietly on my door and then leave one of those notes to visit the shipping depot and slither off. And not even that much: nothing at all.<\/p>\n<p>Damned FutureShop, I should have just ordered through Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>So, here I am, not playing StarCraft when I should be. I feel so <em>very glad<\/em> I preordered now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got suckered in to preordering StarCraft 2 from FutureShop back in May. I was hoping that I could elect to do an in-store pickup, but that wasn&#8217;t an option: it had to be shipped. I remember fondly WarCraft 3 arriving first thing in the morning on release day when I preordered it from FutureShop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}