{"id":162,"date":"2008-05-04T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-04T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spoonybard.com\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-05-04T09:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-04T13:57:00","slug":"mario-kart-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/2008\/05\/mario-kart-wii.html","title":{"rendered":"mario kart wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so i got mario kart wii on friday. i honestly wasn&#8217;t sure about the steering wheel. i thought i would just plug in my classic controller and play it oldskewl but i figured since it was there i&#8217;d give the wheel a try. it&#8217;s actually pretty darn fun. i&#8217;m not sure if i play better with or without it as i&#8217;ve only plowed through 50cc so far, but right now i don&#8217;t even care cuz it&#8217;s so much fun to play with. it kind of reminds me of when i was a kid, and i&#8217;d be playing nintendo. just out of instinct i used to kind of turn the controller left or right along with the game if i was getting really really into it. of course it didn&#8217;t do anything, but i was like 8 years old at the time, it didn&#8217;t have to do anything. it&#8217;s kind of like that, but it actually works. i know that there are other wheel games out there like excite truck and some other ubisoft crap that comes with a black wheel, but i never played any of it. my only driving experience with the wii before this was wario ware. anyway, i&#8217;m impressed and it&#8217;s fun. yup. there&#8217;s only one thing that makes no sense. if king boo is a ghost and he hovers above his kart, then why is he considered heavy? aren&#8217;t ghosts made of&#8230; nothing? i mean&#8230; he&#8217;s floating! i guess it doesn&#8217;t have to make too much sense though, it&#8217;s just mario kart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, so i got mario kart wii on friday. i honestly wasn&#8217;t sure about the steering wheel. i thought i would just plug in my classic controller and play it oldskewl but i figured since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,9,19],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-games","tag-nintendo","tag-wii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spoonybard.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}