{"id":568,"date":"2010-09-11T20:51:48","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T03:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/?p=568"},"modified":"2014-03-17T00:48:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T07:48:53","slug":"mario-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/mario-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/phobus\/2637980634\/\" title=\"Untitled by phobus, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3057\/2637980634_2bbfb8b7d1.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-565\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My wife and I finished world 8 in <a href=\"http:\/\/mariobroswii.com\/\">New Super Mario Bros Wii<\/a> the other day.  We felt very accomplished; the final levels were as difficult as anything in 2D Mario.  Having a wife who plays Mario is great.  I love you sweetie!<\/p>\n<p>Even my wife commented that the final showdown with Bowser felt more like something out of Sonic than a Mario boss (see the end of my <a href=\"http:\/\/islemaster.wordpress.com\/2010\/08\/21\/super-mario-galaxy-2\/\">Mario Galaxy 2 thoughts<\/a>).  Not that I mind.  My favorite Mario games feature great bosses to complement the great platforming, like Mario World 2 and the recent games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My wife and I finished world 8 in New Super Mario Bros Wii the other day. We felt very accomplished; the final levels were as difficult as anything in 2D Mario. Having a wife who plays Mario is great. I love you sweetie! Even my wife commented that the final showdown with Bowser felt more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-designer","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bradleycbuchanan.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}