{"id":2295,"date":"2013-06-18T16:37:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T08:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2013-11-13T08:54:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-13T00:54:11","slug":"died-dysentery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/2013\/06\/died-dysentery\/","title":{"rendered":"You Have Died Of Dysentery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/you-have-died-of-dysentery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/you-have-died-of-dysentery-300x197.jpg\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" alt=\"you have died of dysentery\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" class=\"alignleft\" size-medium wp-image-2296\" \/><\/a>The number one question I get asked when I tell people I&#8217;ve written a novel about the Oregon Trail is whether I&#8217;ve played the computer game. Of course I&#8217;ve played the computer game! Everyone has played the computer game!<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why as one of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thechaosfactory\/quitting-the-grave\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> rewards, you&#8217;ll receive a sweet t-shirt with a covered wagon on it that reads &#8216;You have died of dysentery.&#8217; What better way to show your love for the Oregon Trail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some fun facts about the original game:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An estimated 100 million people have played the computer game at least once. <\/p>\n<p>Of those 100 million, 99% of them have attempted to die on purpose.<\/p>\n<p>60% of them had a character named Booger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And here&#8217;s a video of someone playing the game. I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s gotten over one million views:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/29UIyhSrF6I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And perhaps you&#8217;d like to play right now. You can do so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kongregate.com\/games\/mindrevelation\/oregon-trail\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s Day 2 of Oregon month at the Chaos Factory. Please visit my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thechaosfactory\/quitting-the-grave\" target=\"_blank\">Kickstarter<\/a> and check out my novel, Quitting The Grave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2387,2386,2388,1947,2848,2381,2382,2027],"class_list":["post-2295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing","tag-booger","tag-computer-game","tag-dysentery","tag-kickstarter","tag-novel","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-trail","tag-quitting-the-grave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2463,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/chaosfactory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}