{"id":737,"date":"2006-11-24T20:00:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/24\/wii-sports-good-family-entertainment\/"},"modified":"2006-11-24T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T00:01:38","slug":"wii-sports-good-family-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/24\/wii-sports-good-family-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii Sports &#8211; Good Family Entertainment?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I wait, and debate if I should get a Wii, I thought this article from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infendo.com\/2006\/11\/five-days-with-wii-good-bad-and.html\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.infendo.com\/2006\/11\/five-days-with-wii-good-bad-and.html', 'Infendo');\" target=\"new\">Infendo<\/a> was interesting<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI witnessed something miraculous today. My sister, who rarely plays games, whooped butt in tennis. My mom smiled as she threw a spare in bowling. My dad, a man who I\u2019ve never seen play a game in his life, beat my mom at bowling by getting four strikes in a row. I underestimated Nintendo. I wondered if their whole anyone-can-play strategy was simply marketing hooey. I was wrong, and Nintendo was right. If my family was playing games today after Thanksgiving lunch, Nintendo\u2019s future is brighter than the Wii\u2019s blue light on its brightest setting.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The more I read, the more interested I am in getting a Wii, but I keep telling myself \u201cwait until next year\u201d \u2026 I really want to see what else Nintendo is going to do with this thing before springing for their latest system.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I wait, and debate if I should get a Wii, I thought this article from Infendo was interesting \u201cI witnessed something miraculous today. My sister, who rarely plays games, whooped butt in tennis. My mom smiled as she threw a spare in bowling. My dad, a man who I\u2019ve never seen play a game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/11\/24\/wii-sports-good-family-entertainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wii Sports &#8211; Good Family Entertainment?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}