{"id":49,"date":"2005-03-13T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-14T01:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-04-17T21:41:50","modified_gmt":"2005-04-17T20:41:50","slug":"paintball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/?p=49","title":{"rendered":"Paintball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday I played my first ever game of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bedlam.co.uk\/paintball\/\">paintball<\/a>, with my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vbug.co.uk\">VBUG<\/a> buddies, Graham, George and Geoff (the 3Gs?)<\/p>\n<p>I have to say it was rather enjoyable and I would go back, despite feeling rather sore the next day!  <\/p>\n<p>Sadly we made a tactical error, we split ourselves over two teams.  Clearly a group of four would have made for more tactical play, even though we mixed a Delphi-head with the Visual Basic-heads!  <\/p>\n<p>The day started at about 1000 and ran to about 1600ish (I left at 1500).  I played 5 games out of a probable 7.  <\/p>\n<p>The Bedlam organisation was good: there are seven play zones or battlegrounds each about 100m long by 30m wide.  Our instructor was Chris, he knew his stuff and made sure we all enjoyed ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Boy, those pellets hurt!  They don&#8217;t taste very nice as I discovered!  (despite a face mask, a pellet still exploded and made it to my chin!)<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.devtrain.co.uk\/instructors.aspx\">Graham <\/a>for suggesting paintballing!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"paintball\" vspace=\"8\" hspace=\"8\" border=\"2\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/wp-images\/Mar2005\/paintball.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday saw me paintballing with a bunch of Visual Basic guys&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.craigmurphy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}