{"id":4387,"date":"2009-01-30T09:51:47","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2009-01-30T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T14:59:08","slug":"some_places_erect_statues_--_in_america_we_celebrate_our_heroes_by_making_online_video_games_out_of_them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/some_places_erect_statues_--_in_america_we_celebrate_our_heroes_by_making_online_video_games_out_of_them.html","title":{"rendered":"Some Places Erect Statues &#8212; In America We Celebrate Our Heroes By Making Online Video Games Out Of Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know &#8212; is it any worse than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2008\/01\/staten_island_911_survivor_dis.html\">9\/11-inspired video game<\/a>? Develop your hand-eye coordination <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.newsday.com\/entertainment\/celebrities_blog\/2009\/01\/hero_on_the_hudson_game_dont_w.html\">by practicing ditching a plane in the river<\/a>. What can I say &#8212; people just love success stories:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It was only a matter of time before some clown made a video game about the Hudson River plane ditching.<\/p>\n<p>Links are quickly being spread on the Internet of &#8220;Hero on the Hudson&#8221; &#8212; a game where you have to use your left and right arrow keys to land a jet onto the river.<\/p>\n<p>The game is about as primitive as you can get, as many of the games are on Addictinggames.com. Of the 3,117 votes received, 75% give it a thumbs down. I&#8217;m not sure if it&#8217;s because the game is lame or if it&#8217;s in bad taste, or both.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know &#8212; is it any worse than the 9\/11-inspired video game? Develop your hand-eye coordination by practicing ditching a plane in the river. What can I say &#8212; people just love success stories: It was only a matter of time before some clown made a video game about the Hudson River plane ditching. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_big_shrug"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4390,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions\/4390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}