{"id":725,"date":"2008-07-09T23:40:32","date_gmt":"2008-07-10T06:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2008-07-10T23:47:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T06:47:14","slug":"a146-wiimote-flashlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"#a146 :: Wiimote flashlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/070908.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/070908-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"ENLARGE\" title=\"ENLARGE\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-726\" hspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" srcset=\"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/070908-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/070908-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/070908.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The world&#8217;s hardshell exterior surrounds a doughy heart of kitsch:<\/p>\n<p>Anything initially cool &#8211; the remote to a <a href=\"http:\/\/wii.com\">Nintendo Wii<\/a> game system, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagrasaleonline.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">health<\/a>  for instance &#8211; can impart its cool to common objects by simple mimicry. Bluntly put, <a href=\"http:\/\/cialis-cost.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">treatment<\/a>  things that look like other definite things are automatically &#8220;better&#8221; because of the same dim-witted value system that allows cars to all look alike because no one&#8217;s brave enough to buck current tastes to design something original.<\/p>\n<p>And so, <a href=\"http:\/\/viagra-generic-online.net\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">sick<\/a>  a chunk of branded schwag &#8211; a cheap LED flashlight  is made more desirable (and worth an hour-long wait in a game expo line with other dupes)  by modeling it on the Nintendo game controller.<\/p>\n<p>Sizzle sold, itch scratched, creativity avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s hardshell exterior surrounds a doughy heart of kitsch: Anything initially cool &#8211; the remote to a Nintendo Wii game system, health for instance &#8211; can impart its cool to common objects by simple mimicry. Bluntly put, treatment things that look like other definite things are automatically &#8220;better&#8221; because of the same dim-witted value [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,21,22,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facsimile","category-fetish","category-miniature","category-model","category-tool","category-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}