{"id":24998,"date":"2015-07-02T05:31:13","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T10:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24998"},"modified":"2015-06-18T08:07:32","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T13:07:32","slug":"corrupt-a-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=24998","title":{"rendered":"Corrupt-a-Wish"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a fun thread over on BoingBoing where everyone is playing Corrupt-a-Wish<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The rules are simple:<\/p>\n

I make a wish, and the next person to post finds an ironic way to derive bad consequences from granting the wish, or to otherwise tag a downside to it, and so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

Example:<\/p>\n

Person 1:
\ni wish i had a Corvette<\/p>\n

Person 2:
\ngranted. you got it real cheap because it was crushed under a giant anvil.
\ni wish i was the most attractive person in the world<\/p>\n

Person 3:
\ngranted. you are the most attractive person in the world, and both sexes now want your body.
\ni wish i had a big, juicy steak.<\/p>\n

Person 4:
\ngranted. how’s your diet going?
\ni wish i was invulnerable to every kind of harm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…and so on, with the next person thinking up a Monkey’s Paw-like twist to the previous person’s wish, then making a wish of their own. It sounds like it’d be fun to play with friends, either in person or on a Facebook or blog thread. If my commentariat wants to come out of the woodwork, we can try it here as well.<\/p>\n

I’ll start: I wish I had the power to read other peoples’ minds, but only when I chose to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s a fun thread over on BoingBoing where everyone is playing Corrupt-a-Wish: The rules are simple: I make a wish, and the next person to post finds an ironic way to derive bad consequences from granting the wish, or to otherwise tag a downside to it, and so on and so forth. Example: Person 1: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25001,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24998\/revisions\/25001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}