{"id":5914,"date":"2024-06-18T13:35:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:37:16","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T13:37:16","slug":"back-in-stride-again-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5914","title":{"rendered":"Back in Stride again, again"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Normal&#8221; operations have resumed and my thoughts turn to aspirations.  Why do I hold back?  How much is enough? \u00a3100k, \u00a3500k, \u00a32million? What would make a difference and what is the real cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grinding through the original Mafia game reveals the typical climbing up the ladder story which for the most part is one way littered with compromises and regrets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is happiness better as a Low Level or a GodFather? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/IMG_0521-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Normal&#8221; operations have resumed and my thoughts turn to aspirations. Why do I hold back? How much is enough? \u00a3100k, \u00a3500k, \u00a32million? What would make a difference and what is the real cost. Grinding through the original Mafia game reveals the typical climbing up the ladder story which for the most part is one way &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/?p=5914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Back in Stride again, again&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[103,94,92],"class_list":["post-5914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-love-and-happiness","tag-money-and-power","tag-patience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5917,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clickonyx.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}