{"id":16016,"date":"2009-10-14T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2009-10-14T21:58:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T03:58:29","slug":"yes-wii-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/yes-wii-did.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes Wii Did"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Wii!\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wii.jpg\" width=\"116\" height=\"69\" \/><\/div>\n<p>We went ahead and bought a Wii tonight.<\/p>\n<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Katherine and our (her) Wii\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/IMG00133.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Rather, Katherine bought the Wii, funded by several months of total allowance saving (would I had her discipline), and helped with a bit of price dropping in the Wii market. She bought the unit, plus one game (Super Mario Galaxy). We pitched in with another remote set and another game (Raving Rabbids).<\/p>\n<p>This is, remarkably enough, the first game console we&#8217;ve ever explicitly purchased. Now that we&#8217;ve bought it, no doubt tomorrow a new edition will be announced that is eleventy-times better, and beyond that everyone has moved onto the Nintento 128 or something.<\/p>\n<p>Our Miis are all created and ready to rock. Katherine seems happy about it, which makes me smile.  That&#8217;s more than worth it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We went ahead and bought a Wii tonight. Rather, Katherine bought the Wii, funded by several months of total allowance saving (would I had her discipline), and helped with a bit of price dropping in the Wii market. She bought the unit, plus one game (Super Mario Galaxy). We pitched in with another remote set &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/14\/yes-wii-did.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yes Wii Did&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13133,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/13\/today_you_are_a_gamer.html","url_meta":{"origin":16016,"position":0},"title":"Today &#8230; You are a Gamer!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 13-Jul-08 6:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Kitten's first (self-selected) game dice! 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