{"id":433,"date":"2008-10-21T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottnkelly.com\/blog\/?p=433"},"modified":"2008-10-21T14:30:11","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T20:30:11","slug":"100-hours-playing-video-games-and-still-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/21\/100-hours-playing-video-games-and-still-going\/","title":{"rendered":"100 hours playing video games and still going!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/video-games-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-437\" title=\"Now you can have both. . . \" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/video-games-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/video-games-1.jpeg 322w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/video-games-1-215x300.jpeg 215w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 169px) 100vw, 169px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have to say I believe a new day is dawning.<\/p>\n<p>4 months.  16 weeks.  120 days.  This Wednesday 12 of those weeks will have been at least 30 minutes, usually 1 hour without missing a day (around 84 hours).  And mom said those games would eat our brains.<\/p>\n<p>As it turns out, they can also burn calories whilst munching on the gray matter.\u00a0 I have lost almost 20 pounds.  Yes, that&#8217;s right. 20 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>I am seriously still thinking of trying out to see if I can be to Nintendo and Xbox what Jared is to Subway.  But first I gotta find some pants that fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bad-company-apr10-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-436 alignleft\" title=\"Set your goals - then attain them!\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bad-company-apr10-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bad-company-apr10-1.jpg 636w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bad-company-apr10-1-300x130.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those of you who aren&#8217;t aware, I have been using the Wii Fit and the Xbox in an effort to enjoy exercise.\u00a0 So far it is working out great&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I want to say thanks to my most recent set of work out buddies provided by EA games.\u00a0 Unfortunately they are scheduled to report back to the Library today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/workoutbuddies-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-435\" title=\"The workout crew.\" src=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/workoutbuddies-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"394\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/workoutbuddies-1.jpg 394w, https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/workoutbuddies-1-300x222.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to say I believe a new day is dawning. 4 months. 16 weeks. 120 days. This Wednesday 12 of those weeks will have been at least 30 minutes, usually 1 hour without missing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5,10],"tags":[24,68,70,195,231,238,245,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottnkelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}