{"id":2,"date":"2016-01-02T14:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T14:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2021-03-01T21:34:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T01:34:50","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to MJ\u2019s 8-Bit adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Welcome to a project that&#8217;s far too ambitious for me to every actually complete. I&#8217;m going to play all the games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, in order of release, and write something about each of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a horrible idea. Yeah, I know I&#8217;ll never actually finish. Yeah, I know there&#8217;s almost nobody out there who wants to actually read the background and my opinion of the roughly 700 games originally released for the NES. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s the deal. I&#8217;ve spent my whole life talking about how I want to be a writer. And the only way to get good at writing is to write. While I have some REALLY good ideas of what I want to write eventually, I&#8217;m also still at the stage where I write 10% of the idea, look at it, immediately vomit in disappointment, and give up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I really, really do want to write. So I decided to pick something a little more bite-sized. After months of kicking it around, I settled on the original Nintendo games. There&#8217;s a bunch of them, and most of them aren&#8217;t THAT good. But they are good enough for a couple of hundred words on the bad games, and maybe a little more on the good ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So this project, as unlikely as it&#8217;ll ever be finished, is a way to force myself to write. The rules are simple. I play a game, I research a game, and I write about a game. Then I do a single edit of what I&#8217;ve written, and I put it out here. No over thinking. No going back and fixing. No stress, just play, learn, write, post, and move on. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s a way to force me to write without overthinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I apologize in advance for how bad this is going to be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks for reading, and buckle up for a journey that will likely take years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MJ4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a project that&#8217;s far too ambitious for me to every actually complete. I&#8217;m going to play all the games for the original Nintendo Entertainment System, in order of release, and write something about each of them. Yeah, I know it&#8217;s a horrible idea. Yeah, I know I&#8217;ll never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjj4.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}