{"id":623,"date":"2010-07-31T13:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=623"},"modified":"2010-07-31T13:13:38","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T20:13:38","slug":"blizzard-pays-tribute-to-artist-in-starcraft-ii-single-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/blizzard-pays-tribute-to-artist-in-starcraft-ii-single-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Pays Tribute to Artist in Starcraft II Single Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment has paid tribute again to one of their artists who passed away on March 18, 2004.  After completing the mission titled &quot;Belly of the Beast&quot; a cinematic shows Jim Raynor returning to the surface of Char where he finds General Waterfield&#39;s team decimated by the Zerg.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Raynor approaches a dead Marine, and kneels before him to grab his dog tag.  Those with sharp eyes may have caught the name: M. Koiter on the dog tag.  It stands for Michel Koiter (Twincruiser) a former Son of the Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2004, when World of Warcraft was launched, Blizzard Entertainment paid tribute to Michel Koiter by adding the Shrine of the Fallen Warrior located in a hill to the west of Crossroads (The Barrens).  The runes form the letters MK (Michel Koiter).  The Spirit Guide before the fallen warrior is named Koiter.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/starcraft.incgamers.com\/blog\/comments\/blizzard-pays-tribute-to-artist-in-starcraft-ii-single-player\/\">Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blizzard Entertainment has paid tribute again to one of their artists who passed away on March 18, 2004. After completing the mission titled &quot;Belly of the Beast&quot; a cinematic shows Jim Raynor returning to the surface of Char where he finds General Waterfield&#39;s team decimated by the Zerg. Jim Raynor approaches a dead Marine, and kneels before him to grab his dog tag. Those with sharp eyes may have caught the name: M. Koiter &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/blizzard-pays-tribute-to-artist-in-starcraft-ii-single-player\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[601,88,599,572,571,37,600],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}