{"id":62,"date":"2012-07-04T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/terry-torres.com\/plays\/2012\/07\/04\/andres-left-for-l-a\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T15:44:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T15:44:58","slug":"andres-left-for-l-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/2012\/07\/04\/andres-left-for-l-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Andres left for L.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He left some video games with us for safekeeping. <\/p>\n<p>Including Earthbound. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i129.photobucket.com\/albums\/p214\/kefkajr\/IMG_1462.jpg\" width=\"675\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve played this game a lot. That&#8217;s because I really like it. I think it&#8217;s one of the best games ever, and it means a lot to me personally. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the main thing about Earthbound, and all reviews and essays written about Earthbound inevitably tap into the memories the writer has of playing the game. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been suggested before that it&#8217;s impossible to write about Earthbound without talking specifically about the feelings it invokes in a person. Which is part of the magic of Earthbound. <\/p>\n<p>What I want to do is a close reading &#8211; or a close playing &#8211; of Earthbound, to see how, mechanically, Earthbound sparks these feelings, and how Earthbound <b>as a game<\/b> is actually just really good. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i129.photobucket.com\/albums\/p214\/kefkajr\/IMG_1464.jpg\" width=\"675\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Here we go. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"675\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aD36xh-JgCY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He left some video games with us for safekeeping. Including Earthbound. I&#8217;ve played this game a lot. That&#8217;s because I really like it. I think it&#8217;s one of the best games ever, and it means a lot to me personally. That&#8217;s the main thing about Earthbound, and all reviews and essays written about Earthbound inevitably&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/2012\/07\/04\/andres-left-for-l-a\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Andres left for L.A.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost\/terryplays\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}