{"id":538,"date":"2008-03-18T12:41:17","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2008-03-18T12:41:17","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T18:41:17","slug":"is-brawl-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/is-brawl-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Brawl awesome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can most assuredly report to you that it is <i>every bit as awesome<\/i> as everyone has been making it out to be.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome? Well, it&#8217;s sold <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evilavatar.com\/forums\/showthread.php?t=46685\">1.4 million copies<\/a> in the past week. Just in North America. 874,000 copies were sold just on the <i>first day<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome? The entire game&#8211;from menus to actual brawling&#8211;feels polished to absolute gleaming <i>perfection<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome? I&#8217;ve been playing for a handful of hours almost every night. A tiny, infinitessimal fraction of those games have I actually won. But I have enjoyed every single moment of every single game.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome? My nephew played for a couple hours this weekend. He&#8217;s already asked for the game for his birthday next week.<\/p>\n<p>How awesome? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2006\/01\/20\"><i>So awesome<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can most assuredly report to you that it is every bit as awesome as everyone has been making it out to be. How awesome? Well, it&#8217;s sold 1.4 million copies in the past week. Just in North America. 874,000 copies were sold just on the first day. How awesome? The entire game&#8211;from menus to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[718,461],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-entertainment","tag-super-smash-bros","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}