{"id":8,"date":"2026-10-06T06:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/?p=8"},"modified":"2026-10-06T06:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T06:03:09","slug":"the-what-the-why-the-whelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/?p=8","title":{"rendered":"The What, The why, The Whelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hey there,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m Bailey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I really wanted a place where I can just blurt out all the geeky stuff I interact with with probably a larger focus on Magic but I also intend to talk a good bit about boardgames and maybe books. I hope to share this space with folks eventually and maybe it&#8217;ll grow to something but that is not the Goal. The goal is just get my thoughts out there, I don&#8217;t promise to be profound and I don&#8217;t promise to dropping lessons on folks (ok maybe some&#8230;I have been playing Magic for 30 some odd years), but hopefully this space turns into something you can also pride in too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why The Whelmed&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Frankly, I had a different name for this site but I think it really cornered what it would be about and that frankly restricts what I&#8217;d allow myself to do for arbitrary reasons. I also think calling it The Whelmed really sets the bar for not everything needs to be overly positive or negative; things can just be and that&#8217;s fine. Enjoying something doesn&#8217;t have to be life changing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Any who, that&#8217;s point of this place. Prepare to be whelmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey there, I&#8217;m Bailey. I really wanted a place where I can just blurt out all the geeky stuff I interact with with probably a larger focus on Magic but I also intend to talk a good bit about boardgames and maybe books. I hope to share this space with folks eventually and maybe it&#8217;ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhelmed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}