{"id":3019,"date":"2026-06-24T02:24:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T02:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:42:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:42:41","slug":"a-second-life-newbie-experience-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"A Second Life Newbie Experience in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Aside from one brief encounter with Second Life in 2011, I&#8217;d say this is my first time <em>really<\/em> experiencing this virtual world. And it&#8217;s strange, but it grew on me. So here are my thoughts as a practically new user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What prompted my return was being housebound with a miserable cold for a week. I was looking for something to do that would scratch that creative itch while waiting for the worst of the fatigue to pass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aside from one brief encounter with Second Life in 2011, I&#8217;d say this is my first time really experiencing this virtual world. And it&#8217;s strange, but it grew on me. So here are my thoughts as a practically new user. What prompted my return was being housebound with a miserable cold for a week. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-virtual-worlds-and-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3021,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tudboat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}