{"id":1683,"date":"2013-07-30T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T02:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2013-07-30T21:28:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T03:28:37","slug":"defcon-21-experience-it-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"Defcon 21 experience: it begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m in Boulder City, Nevada. Drinking beer, eating Mexican food, getting ramped up for Defcon.  Night one in Nevada I&#8217;m staying in quaint (or is that flea-bag?) motel. Actually not too bad (knock on wood).  We stayed here last year.  Drive down to the room, and what is parked next to our building but a 1980&#8217;s vintage 38 ft Wellcraft Scarab! Most definitely a sign from god. Or Moses. Or somebody.  I really, really need a Wellcraft Scarab 38. A 1986 38KV preferably, but I wouldn&#8217;t be too picky. This poor baby is missing props, so who knows what else she needs, but I&#8217;d give her a good home. I know how to care for strong women&#8230;and we&#8217;re talking right at about 1000 HP. Nice.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/scarab.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Me likey!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ok, so enough pirate drooling.  Tonight I&#8217;m staying in an oddball dump in Boulder City. This time tomorrow night I&#8217;ll be cooking dinner deep in the desert, talking about life with some badass friends, echoes of machineguns in my ears. Yeah, I&#8217;m that way.  <\/p>\n<p>Then it&#8217;s on to the Rio. Hey, if you&#8217;re going to be a scoundrel\/pirate\/mercenary, you&#8217;ve got to roll like this.  <\/p>\n<p>So anyway, there&#8217;s the start of my Defcon 21 experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;m in Boulder City, Nevada. Drinking beer, eating Mexican food, getting ramped up for Defcon. Night one in Nevada I&#8217;m staying in quaint (or is that flea-bag?) motel. Actually not too bad (knock on wood). We stayed here last year. Drive down to the room, and what is parked next to our building but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1696,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.firmwarez.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}