{"id":1012,"date":"2009-11-03T07:38:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1012"},"modified":"2009-11-03T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T14:38:36","slug":"kat-vs-plants-vs-zombies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1012","title":{"rendered":"Kat vs. Plants vs. Zombies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When PopCap brought out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcap.com\/games\/pvz\">Plants vs. Zombies<\/a>, their cute take on tower-defense games, I was hooked like everybody else. Well, everybody else but one person: my wife. I got the PC version, and she played a little bit before grabbing the Mac version for herself. Then she played it a lot and finished the Adventure mode before I did. Then she finished it again. And a third time. Along the way she mastered the zen garden and racked up an insane amount of in-game cash. I regularly look over her shoulder in awe. <\/p>\n<p>For reference, here&#8217;s a screen from a fairly typical session of the game. This is what a lot of people who have tried the demo or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popcap.com\/games\/free\/pvz\">played the browser version<\/a> experience. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/PlantsVsZombiesNormal.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"480\" height=\"372\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a screen from one of Kat&#8217;s random sessions. I happened to look over and then asked her to take a screenshot. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/PlantsVsZombiesKat.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I have since asked her for her advice on how to play. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When PopCap brought out Plants vs. Zombies, their cute take on tower-defense games, I was hooked like everybody else. Well, everybody else but one person: my wife. I got the PC version, and she played a little bit before grabbing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=1012\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012\/revisions\/1015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}