{"id":5292,"date":"2011-12-14T23:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T22:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2011-12-16T23:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T22:29:24","slug":"walking-away-from-skyrim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/walking-away-from-skyrim\/","title":{"rendered":"Walking away from Skyrim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Picture from Internet meme\" src=\"https:\/\/chaosnode.net\/dec11\/di111214.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;One does not simply walk away from Skyrim&quot;\" width=\"551\" height=\"325\" \/><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;One does not simply walk away from Skyrim&#8221; &#8211; picture commemorating the scene in Lord of the Rings where it is said, &#8220;One does not simply walk into Mordor&#8221;. \u00c2\u00a0Unless I misremember, that was more or less what happened.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had a lot of fun with Skyrim, and could probably continue that way for some hours a day for the rest of my natural lifespan. That, however, would not be a good idea. I am more mature now than I was during the years spent in Daggerfall. There is more sense of urgency in my life. Not in an outward way, I don&#8217;t really have any ambitions in this world in the form of career, family or prestige. I mean inwardly, the transformation of the soul.<\/p>\n<p>Also my precious few readers. I want to be here for you, of course. ^_^<\/p>\n<p>The dissonance between the violence and sorcery and other hellish things in that lower world on one hand, and on the other hand the life and thoughts of the saints I am studying, well, something has to give. I may or may not return to the game for one reason or another (the screenshots for example) but right now, I&#8217;m starting to walk out of Skyrim, following the light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quitting Skyrim, for now at least. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/12\/14\/walking-away-from-skyrim\/\">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":[45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5294,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}