{"id":1417,"date":"2007-03-20T13:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1417"},"modified":"2007-03-20T13:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T17:41:00","slug":"wascaly-wabbits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1417","title":{"rendered":"Wascaly Wabbits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the miracle of Craigslist, cash payments, and a man who sold me games out of his car window (not making this up &#8211; I did it just after meeting <lj user=\"sanity_clause\"> for lunch), I now have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/932877.asp\">Raymonds Raving Rabbids<\/a> AND <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/935589.asp\">Wii Play<\/a> in my hot, trembling little hands. So I&#8217;m at four games, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/933010.asp\">Wii Sports<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerankings.com\/htmlpages2\/932946.asp\">Wario Ware: Smooth Moves<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now I just have to quit my job in order to get enough time to play them all. <\/p>\n<p>I feel like some sort of dealer or addict, buying stuff with greenbacks on sidewalk corners and in alleyways. It&#8217;s almost as though the government has declared all Wii products illegal, and stripped the shelves of every Best Buy, Future Shop, Toys R Us, Blockbuster and EB Games bare. Is this druggie-style procurement methodology really the image Nintendo was hoping to foster in young adults when they completely failed to account for supply and demand with their manufacturing output?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the miracle of Craigslist, cash payments, and a man who sold me games out of his car window (not making this up &#8211; I did it just after meeting for lunch), I now have Raymonds Raving Rabbids AND Wii Play in my hot, trembling little hands. So I&#8217;m at four games, including Wii <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1417\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}