{"id":4078,"date":"2016-03-28T20:06:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=4078"},"modified":"2016-03-28T20:06:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T20:06:54","slug":"penny-arcade-shocker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/28\/penny-arcade-shocker\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Arcade &#8211; Shocker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I was a kid, the Penny Arcade at the Seattle Center had a machine, I don&#8217;t remember what it was called but imagine &#8220;Shocker&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The machine had two metallic knobs you grab on to.\u00a0 You put a nickle in it and it would deliver pulsed electrical shocks about once a second between the knobs, the intensity of which was controlled by rotating the left one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The idea was to see who could handle the most juice, you or your friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At the time it seemed harmless enough but now I&#8217;m thinking, one hand to the other, a path straight through the heart, and it only takes about 15ma through the heart to put it into fibrillation.\u00a0 This in hindsight seems like not the best idea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000080;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But we were kids, we were strong.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I was a kid, the Penny Arcade at the Seattle Center had a machine, I don&#8217;t remember what it was called but imagine &#8220;Shocker&#8221;. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The machine had two metallic knobs you grab on to.\u00a0 You put a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2016\/03\/28\/penny-arcade-shocker\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpautop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}