{"id":1739,"date":"2007-12-20T15:53:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-20T22:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2008-05-07T15:56:57","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T22:56:57","slug":"handbell-hero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/handbell-hero\/","title":{"rendered":"Handbell Hero!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The kinder, gentler Guitar Hero, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vml.com\/handbellhero\/\">playable with a web browser<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Excellent read: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerswithjobs.com\/node\/36460\">Best Buy Bodhisattva<\/a>&#8220;, about a man in awe watching someone play &#8220;Through the Fire and Flames&#8221; on Guitar Hero III.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He hits the last orange note. He lets the guitar fall from his hands onto the floor. It&#8217;s not an act of disdain or bravado, his hands simply open and then there is no guitar. I look at the screen. &#8220;You Rock!&#8221; Jake echoes with the screen. 500,000 points. Kyle isn&#8217;t looking. The small crowd claps for a second, then starts to disperse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/handbell-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The kinder, gentler Guitar Hero, playable with a web browser. Excellent read: &#8220;Best Buy Bodhisattva&#8220;, about a man in awe watching someone play &#8220;Through the Fire and Flames&#8221; on Guitar Hero III. He hits the last orange note. He lets the guitar fall from his hands onto the floor. It&#8217;s not an act of disdain &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/handbell-hero\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Handbell Hero!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/2007\/12\/20\/handbell-hero\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mortie.net\/journal\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}