{"id":4194,"date":"2010-11-25T12:25:35","date_gmt":"2010-11-25T11:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4194"},"modified":"2010-11-25T12:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-25T11:32:51","slug":"those-angry-birds-are-still-at-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=4194","title":{"rendered":"Those Angry Birds are still at it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I did <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3607\">a posting <\/a>about the addictive power of the iPhone app called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angry_Birds\">Angry Birds<\/a>. I thought that it was time that I reported my progress.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to pay the game when I&#8217;m waiting for something: the PC to warm up, a tube train to arrive, the kettle to boil. Also, when I get stuck on a particular level, I can give up for days before being drawn back in.\u00a0 So I&#8217;m now on Level 7-2.<\/p>\n<p>The game has been staggeringly popular. It is now available for virtually all smartphones and next year it will available on a variety of games consoles. Apparently there have so far been 36 million downloads, so clearly I&#8217;m not alone.<\/p>\n<p>You can obtain a taste for the game here:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bNNzRyd1xz0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bNNzRyd1xz0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago, I did a posting about the addictive power of the iPhone app called Angry Birds. I thought that it was time that I reported my progress. I tend to pay the game when I&#8217;m waiting for something: the PC to warm up, a tube train to arrive, the kettle to boil. Also, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4194\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}