{"id":4186,"date":"2017-10-02T12:25:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T03:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=4186"},"modified":"2017-10-02T19:14:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T10:14:52","slug":"john-the-first-step-is-having-a-cool-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/john-the-first-step-is-having-a-cool-fortress\/","title":{"rendered":"John, the first step is having a cool fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4193\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png 800w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-200x150.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1161.png\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we all can agree that this is better than a mountain lair in Switzerland. Sure Switzerland has cachet but what is a mountain lair if 007 never shows up. At least my fortress was scaled by Sean Connery himself. Okay, I don&#8217;t have sharks with lasers but I do have a moat with ninjas. Ninjas beat trilingual minions cold.<\/p>\n<p>Dear John, if you are going to take over the world it is best not to have Zeke and Timmy as henchmen. But I do envy the Swiss Cowbell Torture though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4186\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><div class=\"pld-dislike-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-dislike-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"4186\" data-trigger-type=\"dislike\" data-restriction=\"user\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-down\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-dislike-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\"><\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4193\" src=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162.png 800w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1162-200x150.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_1161.png\"><br \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think we all can agree that this is better than a mountain lair in Switzerland. Sure Switzerland has cachet but what is a mountain lair if 007 never shows up. At least my fortress was scaled by Sean Connery himself. Okay, I don&#8217;t have sharks with lasers but I do have a moat with ninjas. Ninjas beat trilingual minions cold.<\/p>\n<p>Dear John, if you are going to take over the world it is best not to have Zeke and Timmy as henchmen. But I do envy the Swiss Cowbell Torture though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-login.php\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger \" ... <a href=\"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/john-the-first-step-is-having-a-cool-fortress\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,187],"class_list":["post-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-himeji-castle","tag-how-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5805"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4194,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions\/4194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}