{"id":1639,"date":"2024-12-07T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/?p=1639"},"modified":"2025-01-23T15:25:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:25:45","slug":"get-the-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/07\/get-the-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Get the Power!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 44%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p>Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn\u2019t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s, I found this Nintendo Power magazine at K-Mart and used my birthday money to buy it. I read so much of it that I still have a huge amount memorized about 30 years later. Because of this guide, I was able to beat my very first video game as a kid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been packed away for decades and I\u2019m at a point where I need to let it go. Getting rid of something so nostalgic is weird. I know it\u2019s pointless in the modern day, but it\u2019s still hard not to want that direct emotional connection to the past.<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nintendopower-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1640 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nintendopower-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nintendopower-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nintendopower-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/nintendopower.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<div class='lj-moods-meta'><b>Current Mood:<\/b> &#x1F914;nostalgic<br\/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back before the internet, if you wanted to get through one of your favorite video games, you couldn\u2019t Google for a walkthrough or watch YouTube play-through videos; if you got stuck, you were just stuck. Sometime in the early 90s, I found this Nintendo Power magazine at K-Mart and used my birthday money to buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,15,16],"tags":[27,30],"class_list":["post-1639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-friends-family","category-history","tag-facebook","tag-neo-lj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1639\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/home.woodchuckhunters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}