{"id":378,"date":"2010-04-08T14:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.net\/wordpress\/?p=378"},"modified":"2012-08-13T11:32:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T18:32:10","slug":"local-portland-guy-beats-asteroids-record-that-has-stood-for-over-27-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"Local Portland guy beats Asteroids record that has stood for over 27 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I met this guy when he was attempting his 2006 world record attempt at the local <a href=\"www.groundkontrol.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ground Kontrol <\/a>just a dozen blocks down the street from my place.\u00a0 I just walked in on a weekend and he was the only guy in the place playing.\u00a0 I chatted with him a bit while he was playing and he seemed pretty friendly.\u00a0 Glad to hear he made it this time.\u00a0 He had gotten about 20+ hours into it the last time when the machine overheated and crashed on him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2010\/04\/asteroids-record\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wired.com\/images_blogs\/gamelife\/2010\/04\/asteroidsrecord.jpg?w=250\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2010\/04\/asteroids-record\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2010\/04\/asteroids-record\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go watch his actual gameplay here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.justin.tv\/johnmcallister#r=P29FTM8~\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.justin.tv\/johnmcallister#r=P29FTM8~<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I met this guy when he was attempting his 2006 world record attempt at the local Ground Kontrol just a dozen blocks down the street from my place.\u00a0 I just walked in on a weekend and he was the only guy in the place playing.\u00a0 I chatted with him a bit while he was playing and he seemed pretty friendly.\u00a0 Glad to hear he made it this time.\u00a0 He had gotten about 20+ hours into it the last time when&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=378\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-66","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":625,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}