{"id":8201,"date":"2023-08-27T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T04:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2023-08-20T23:16:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T03:16:00","slug":"comet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/comet\/","title":{"rendered":"Comet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/1c81b5037be498ccf495c6d40217c0ed\/41e54ddef8e14bd4-93\/s1280x1920\/8611f615112b22af20b05d51718fca49501aa9fc.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/1c81b5037be498ccf495c6d40217c0ed\/41e54ddef8e14bd4-93\/s1280x1920\/8611f615112b22af20b05d51718fca49501aa9fc.jpg?resize=525%2C511&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Photo of the Comet backglass as described in the post\" width=\"525\" height=\"511\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comet. Williams, 1985, and it looks it. Quasi-photo-realistic people screaming in a washed-out rollercoaster car, and you only realize after a moment of looking that they\u2019re somewhat upside-down, because the fairgrounds are turned 270 degrees and tucked in the top right corner. Also, there are fireworks *below* the rollercoaster car. And an evil toothy grin on the car\u2019s front.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know where this track goes, but I suspect it is to their doom.<\/p>\n<p>Oh and check out this stuck ball I managed to get while playing. Damn rollercoasters, always stopping in the middle of the track.<\/p>\n<div class=\"npf_row\">\n<div class=\"npf_col\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/85ba98369822734b8672ce26042e2323\/349ae4469f840fce-59\/s1280x1920\/f24f3e4ce4291dd2a484d521975c8cb543ba43f5.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"long view of a pinball stuck in the middle of a curve on a ramp\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/03b2661bfc7f86ca5dca3d7ecd6ec7ef\/349ae4469f840fce-88\/s1280x1920\/945152f8d13a85747d4fb0e9be7c166718d2bf8c.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightbox-image alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/64.media.tumblr.com\/03b2661bfc7f86ca5dca3d7ecd6ec7ef\/349ae4469f840fce-88\/s1280x1920\/945152f8d13a85747d4fb0e9be7c166718d2bf8c.jpg?resize=525%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"zoomed in side view of a pinball stuck in the middle of a curve on a ramp\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comet. Williams, 1985, and it looks it. Quasi-photo-realistic people screaming in a washed-out rollercoaster car, and you only realize after a moment of looking that they\u2019re somewhat upside-down, because the fairgrounds are turned 270 degrees and tucked in the top right corner. Also, there are fireworks *below* the rollercoaster car. And an evil toothy grin &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/2023\/08\/comet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Comet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[218],"tags":[252,219,236,235,238,237,255],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinball","tag-80s-aesthetic","tag-backglass","tag-carnival-theme","tag-comet","tag-cursed-objects","tag-imminent-death","tag-williams"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sdUhYo-comet","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8202,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirabug.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}