{"id":1229,"date":"2007-05-21T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2007-05-21T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:51:00","slug":"whee-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1229","title":{"rendered":"Whee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My husband recently got a raise at work.  We&#8217;re both very happy about this, talking about what bills we can pay off or down, and all that other practical stuff.  However, I told him that while that was a great idea, he had worked hard, and I wanted him to buy something stupid and impractical with his very first higher paycheck.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/wii.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/Wii.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"200\" border=\"2\"><br \/>\nMission Accomplished!<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d been talking about a wii for a while, but it definitely falls under the &#8220;stupid and impractical&#8221; category so we never got one.  But he was really going on about it one morning, so I started calling around, and finally found one in stock, one place in Charlotte, way out in the sticks.  So while he was at work that day, I took a long car drive and an hour later we were the proud owners of a wii.  I also got an extra controller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/catalog\/product.do?dest=9999999997&#038;product_id=5516055&#038;sourceid=0100000030660804502498\">(bundled with more games)<\/a> so that we could play together.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/flickr_wiimotion_pool.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/flickr_wiimotion_pool.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" height=\"200\" border=\"2\" align=\"left\"><\/a>We&#8217;ve had fun with this!  I personally have a sore keister from wii bowling, and my husband has a sore shoulder and arm from wii baseball.  We both agree that this says sad things about the state of our fitness.  However, from the looks of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/wiimotion\/pool\/\">flickr wii motion pool<\/a> I have a feeling we&#8217;re not alone.  One of my favorite pics is the one at left.  No, that is not my husband.<\/p>\n<p>I want to bring this over to my Dad&#8217;s house so he can check it out too.  I think he&#8217;d get a kick out of it.  He&#8217;s a good pool player, and this does have a 9-ball game.  I had trouble figuring out the amount of force to put on the remote and also keeping it lined up with the sensor properly.  As a result, when I played with my husband last night, I sometimes wound up leaving the ball juuuust shy of the pocket, setting him up for perfect shots.  He skunked me.  What a disgrace to the family name!<\/p>\n<p>In case any of y&#8217;all out there have wiis and want to connect, my number is 5471 7965 3600 6004.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still figuring this thing out, but so far, it&#8217;s fun!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My husband recently got a raise at work. We&#8217;re both very happy about this, talking about what bills we can pay off or down, and all that other practical stuff. However, I told him that while that was a great idea, he had worked hard, and I wanted him to buy something stupid and impractical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}