{"id":639,"date":"2014-11-26T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T11:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=639"},"modified":"2014-11-03T19:16:56","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T19:16:56","slug":"onm-remembered-pokemon-week-ii-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"ONM Remembered &#8211; Pok\u00e9mon Week II, day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: x-large;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ll let you have a swell MAGIKARP&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/onmems-260.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/bl\/onm\/thumb\/onmems-260th.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nfrom Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide (1999)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Not even a year after its Western release, and Pok\u00e9mon was crawling with rumours and hoaxes of super secret creatures accessible only by the most tedious of trials <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(long before Nintendo themselves caught on)<\/span>, and ONM&#8217;s Master Guide sought to put the record straight. Not with actual evidence or anything, just posting pictures <span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">(that I wondered how were made or where they came from for the longest time)<\/span> and saying, no, it&#8217;s fake, your friend was a total fibber.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a decent way of breaking up the rumours, but come on, how can we trust them? These guys don&#8217;t even work at Nintendo, for crying out loud; how do we know they&#8217;re not holding out on these sweet secret Pok\u00e9mon for themselves? For that matter, how do we know all our friends&#8217; uncles aren&#8217;t doing the same thing? I will not stand for secret Pok\u00e9mon collusion.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Besides being a font of frustration for easily-swindled players, fake Pok\u00e9mon is apparently a pretty huge subject both among investigative websites and fanart scenes, which I can&#8217;t help but find particularly cute. It sounds like a greater community for creativity than the Sonic hoaxing scene ever was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ll let you have a swell MAGIKARP&#8221; from Pok\u00e9mon Master Guide (1999)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[37,50],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-onm-remembered","tag-onm","tag-pokemon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randomhoohaas.flyingomelette.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}