{"id":5293,"date":"2015-07-13T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5293"},"modified":"2015-07-13T16:52:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T21:52:34","slug":"thankyouiwata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5293","title":{"rendered":"#ThankYouIwata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the news broke that Nintendo&#8217;s Global President, Satoru Iwata, had passed away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thankyouiwata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5294\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thankyouiwata.jpg\" alt=\"thankyouiwata\" width=\"640\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thankyouiwata.jpg 640w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thankyouiwata-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/thankyouiwata-500x250.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m heartbroken all over again. When you think of the CEO of a giant global company, you don&#8217;t think of someone like Mr. Iwata. His warmth and sense of humour made Nintendo Directs such a joy to watch, and his contributions to Nintendo as a programmer are legendary.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/glUEKwjqMKw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>I couldn&#8217;t possibly hope to properly articulate how I feel and why, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usgamer.net\/articles\/goodbye-iwata-san-the-industry-loses-a-legend\">here&#8217;s a really great write up<\/a>. One of many that have been posted today. I&#8217;m sure that many more still will be written over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>Edit: Aw, heck. <a href=\"https:\/\/jfieldsted.wordpress.com\/2015\/07\/13\/eulogy-satoru-iwata\/\">Here&#8217;s another one<\/a> by a fellow Talking Time member.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwataballoons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5295\" src=\"http:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwataballoons.jpg\" alt=\"iwataballoons\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwataballoons.jpg 600w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwataballoons-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwataballoons-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace, Iwata-san.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the news broke that Nintendo&#8217;s Global President, Satoru Iwata, had passed away. Now I&#8217;m heartbroken all over again. When you think of the CEO of a giant global company, you don&#8217;t think of someone like Mr. Iwata. His warmth and sense of humour made Nintendo Directs such a joy to watch, and his contributions &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=5293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#ThankYouIwata<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,21,12,23,20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-earthbound","category-irl","category-mario","category-pokemon","category-retro-gaming","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5293"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5300,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5293\/revisions\/5300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}