{"id":423,"date":"2014-01-01T05:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bullmensfiction.wordpress.com\/2012\/01\/12\/bullshot-aaron-burch"},"modified":"2022-08-03T13:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T17:15:53","slug":"bullshot-aaron-burch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/fiction\/bullshot-aaron-burch\/","title":{"rendered":"BULLshot: Aaron Burch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BULL:<\/strong> You sure do like Nintendo, man. What&#8217;s the attraction?<\/p>\n<p><strong>AB:<\/strong> I think nostalgia, largely. I grew up playing the NES, a lot, as I imagine most my generation did, and it looms large. And not only did I grow up in the age of Nintendo, but also in the age of Tarantino, Kevin Smith, and even Kevin Williamson. So: I&#8217;m a sucker for pop culture references, and I think Nintendo games are a good chunk of the pop culture of our youth, yeah?<\/p>\n<p>Plus, this story, and the novel it&#8217;s from, is trying to deal with nostalgia and memory, and it felt like both, so (hopefully) the repeated NES references aren&#8217;t just thrown in for fun (though there&#8217;s that, too), but are kind of the narrator looking back and feeling nostalgic.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3041900003163705063-6123663213384138692?l=bullmensfiction.blogspot.com\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author of &#8220;Or&#8221; on the nostalgic appeal of the original Nintendo Entertainment System<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fiction","writer-jarrett-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17533,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/17533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrbullbull.com\/newbull\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}