{"id":114,"date":"2006-04-08T21:00:40","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T02:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=114"},"modified":"2015-11-16T11:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T16:54:58","slug":"the-official-golf-ball-of-ultima-iii-exodus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/114\/the-official-golf-ball-of-ultima-iii-exodus","title":{"rendered":"The Official Golf Ball of <em>Ultima III: Exodus<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/ultima3_golfball_large.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/ultima3_golfball_small.jpg\" alt=\"Official Ultima III Golf Ball\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">Here it is: the Official Golf Ball of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ultima_III\" target=\"new\">Ultima III: Exodus<\/a><\/em>.  Back in 1983, if you found this ultra-rare object included in your <em>Ultima III<\/em> game box, you won an all-expenses paid trip to Lord British&#8217;s backyard swimming pool.<\/p>\n<p>Ok, so I made that up.  I actually found this golf ball in <em>my<\/em> back yard recently and thought it mildly amusing.  The ball&#8217;s shape looks warped purely because my flatbed scanner wasn&#8217;t designed to scan 3D spherical objects.  I wonder if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Garriott\" target=\"new\">Richard Garriott<\/a> uses this brand when he hits the green.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here it is: the Official Golf Ball of Ultima III: Exodus. Back in 1983, if you found this ultra-rare object included in your Ultima III game box, you won an all-expenses paid trip to Lord British&#8217;s backyard swimming pool. Ok, so I made that up. I actually found this golf ball in my back yard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,18],"tags":[1279,543,1277,220,796,329,1278],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-info-and-history","category-humor","category-recent-finds","tag-found-objects","tag-golf","tag-golf-ball","tag-humor","tag-richard-garriott","tag-ultima","tag-ultima-iii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}