{"id":1620,"date":"2008-04-27T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T20:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2008-04-27T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2008-04-27T20:18:26","slug":"an-odd-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/archives\/1620","title":{"rendered":"An odd experience."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home on Memorial Drive after several hours&#8217; worth of playing <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">M<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">ario Kart Wii, <\/span>I kept thinking &#8220;FIRE THE RED SHELL! \u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">FIRE THE RED SHELL!&#8221; <\/span>\u00c2\u00a0Also tempted to rev the engine at red lights, just waiting to press and hold the gas at just&#8230; the right&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">moment.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>In other words<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">, Mario Kart Wii <\/span>is<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\"> awesome. \u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>What? \u00c2\u00a0I work in a <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">game lab. <\/span>\u00c2\u00a0You don&#8217;t think I spend <span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> my time writing and consulting, do you? \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home on Memorial Drive after several hours&#8217; worth of playing Mario Kart Wii, I kept thinking &#8220;FIRE THE RED SHELL! \u00c2\u00a0FIRE THE RED SHELL!&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0Also tempted to rev the engine at red lights, just waiting to press and hold the gas at just&#8230; the right&#8230; \u00c2\u00a0moment. In other words, Mario Kart Wii is awesome. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4e5QR-q8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geoffreylong.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}