{"id":1547,"date":"2013-03-01T07:02:15","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:02:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T14:02:15","slug":"best-game-ever-i-really-want-to-play-your-friday-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2013\/03\/best-game-ever-i-really-want-to-play-your-friday-funny.html","title":{"rendered":"Best Game Ever &#8211; I Really Want to Play&#8230; Your Friday Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Okay, true confession time: I\u2019m afraid to play paint ball. I have tons of friends who have played it, or still do. I\u2019ve been invited many times but have never played. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m pain averse, I\u2019m okay with pain. However, I am deathly afraid of being startled. I\u2019ve never liked it. Even as a child. To this day, if someone jumps out of the dark to try and scare or startle me? What can I say? My fight\/flight instinct take me over and causes me to either curse like a sailor or to punch\/slap them, regardless of how we are related (my commitment to non-violence notwithstanding). So, dressing up in full body gear and walking around a pasture or warehouse waiting on someone to pop out of nowhere and pummel me with over-sized bb\u2019s filled with paint? This sounds horrible\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But this game? This game I would play\u2026<\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=esRwibduFzQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=esRwibduFzQ<\/a>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, true confession time: I\u2019m afraid to play paint ball. I have tons of friends who have played it, or still do. I\u2019ve been invited many times but have never played. It\u2019s not that I\u2019m pain averse, I\u2019m okay with pain. However, I am deathly afraid of being startled. I\u2019ve never liked it. Even as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[458,65,457],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audi","tag-friday-funny","tag-paintball"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Best Game Ever - I Really Want to Play... Your Friday Funny<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Okay, true confession time: I&#039;m afraid to play paint ball. 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