{"id":13005,"date":"2005-12-01T00:10:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/press-your-luck-video\/"},"modified":"2005-12-01T00:10:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-01T00:10:00","slug":"press-your-luck-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/press-your-luck-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Your Luck Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/smithappens.com\/video_pressyourluck.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Press Your Luck Whammy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/whammy.jpg\" \/><\/a>Do you remember the &lsquo;80s game show <a href=\"http:\/\/sonicwhammy.20fr.com\/gameshow\/pyl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Press Your Luck<\/i><\/a>?  It was one of my favorites, and I think you can still catch it on the Game Show Channel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fimoculous.com\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Fimoculous<\/i><\/a> reminded me of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schmarder.com\/will\/pyl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Larsen<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/radiotv\/tv\/whammy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">contestant who memorized the seemingly random movement of the squares on the board<\/a>, going 35 straight times without a Whammy for a total of $110,237.  <a href=\"http:\/\/smithappens.com\/video_pressyourluck.php\" target=\"_blank\">Here&rsquo;s the video<\/a> (embedded Windows Media Video).  Amazing&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/tv\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">tv<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-113339543603950461?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the &lsquo;80s game show Press Your Luck? It was one of my favorites, and I think you can still catch it on the Game Show Channel. Fimoculous reminded me of Michael Larsen, the contestant who memorized the seemingly random movement of the squares on the board, going 35 straight times without a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2005\/12\/01\/press-your-luck-video\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Press Your Luck Video&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-13005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}