{"id":26944,"date":"2014-11-22T15:20:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nprplays-from-weekend-edition-saturday\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T15:57:17","slug":"nprplays-from-weekend-edition-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/nprplays-from-weekend-edition-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"250\" height=\"141\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nBr7EhL6Jpg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=opaque\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nprplays.tumblr.com\/post\/103283282839\/from-weekend-edition-saturday-terrible-video\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">nprplays<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>From <em>Weekend Edition Saturday<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/alltechconsidered\/2014\/11\/22\/365753387\/terrible-video-game-great-fundraiser-meet-desert-bus-for-hope\"><strong>Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,&rdquo; Kathleen de Vere says, &ldquo;and then you do it again.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This rotten game was created in the mid-\u201990s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games. Eight years ago, members of <a href=\"http:\/\/loadingreadyrun.com\/\">LoadingReadyRun<\/a>\u2014 an online comedy group in British Columbia \u2014 discovered it.<\/p>\n<p>They thought a live online marathon Desert Bus session would be fun, and could raise money for Child\u2019s Play \u2014 a charity supporting hospitals and domestic abuse shelters. And thus was born Desert Bus for Hope, the world\u2019s dullest telethon.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The first year we raised $22,000 and were sort of like, \u2018I guess we\u2019re doing this every year,\u2019 &rdquo; says Graham Stark, de Vere\u2019s co-pilot for this shift.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>nprplays: From Weekend Edition Saturday: Terrible Video Game, Great Fundraiser: Meet Desert Bus For Hope &ldquo;You stay in the left-hand lane until the torment ends,&rdquo; Kathleen de Vere says, &ldquo;and then you do it again.&rdquo; This rotten game was created in the mid-\u201990s by the magicians Penn and Teller as a satire on video games. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-70A","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26945,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26944\/revisions\/26945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}