{"id":832,"date":"2007-12-18T15:34:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/bye-bye-wii\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T15:34:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T23:34:14","slug":"bye-bye-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/bye-bye-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"Bye Bye Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we said goodbye to our Nintendo Wii today. It was a surprise thank-you gift from Jason for hooking him up with a portfolio site (which ultimately got him a freelance gig which then turned into a job). We had mixed feeling having to let go of such a fun console. But we simply didn&#8217;t use it enough to justify it sitting there, collecting dust and being devalued every week. So I figured if we were going to sell it, the week before Christmas would be the best time.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want to rip off whoever the next owner was (it&#8217;s that thing called &#8220;karma&#8221;). So I put up a fair price that basically got Jason&#8217;s money worth. And it turned out an old Japanese woman wanted it for her grandson&#8230; It was a bit hard having to explain everything, but we got through! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>So now we are game-console-less again &#8212; More time with the physical puzzles for Bryan; and more time getting the LCD screen tan for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we said goodbye to our Nintendo Wii today. It was a surprise thank-you gift from Jason for hooking him up with a portfolio site (which ultimately got him a freelance gig which then turned into a job). We had mixed feeling having to let go of such a fun console. But we simply didn&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/bye-bye-wii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bye Bye Wii&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life","category-geek-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-dq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}