{"id":17,"date":"2026-09-06T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/2026\/09\/what-nobody-tells-you-about-starting-out\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T23:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T23:58:32","slug":"what-nobody-tells-you-about-starting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/2026\/09\/what-nobody-tells-you-about-starting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"What nobody tells you about starting out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A few practical notes before you try it: bring cash, give yourself more time than feels necessary, and photograph the menu board \u2014 future you will want to know what that was.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It started as a half-plan on a Tuesday and somehow became the highlight of the week. I wrote down everything while it was fresh, mostly so future-me could relive it \u2014 but if this helps you pick your own version of it, even better.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Have you tried it yourself? Tell me in the comments \u2014 I read everything.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few practical notes before you try it: bring cash, give yourself more time than feels necessary, and photograph the menu board \u2014 future you will want to know what that was. It started as a half-plan on a Tuesday and somehow became the highlight of the week. I wrote down everything while it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/f.web.vk.al\/neon-grid\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}