{"id":1824,"date":"2008-11-07T00:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-11-07T07:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/?p=1824"},"modified":"2008-11-06T18:31:14","modified_gmt":"2008-11-07T01:31:14","slug":"its-raining-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/2008\/11\/07\/its-raining-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s raining iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/iphone-fishing.jpg\" alt=\"It could lead to a $300 projectile\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" align=\"right\" \/> I love gadgets<\/strong> as much as the next fellow, and after eyeballing an Apple iPhone some months ago &#8211; I figured sooner or later I might end up owning one.<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m glad I waited as there may be a better than average chance at scoring a free one. The software geniuses at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freeverse.com\/games\/game\/?id=4567\">Freeverse<\/a> have debuted the first fishing game for the iPhone, and like the Wii, it&#8217;s motion activated.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll remember the Wii as the cause of all those smashed TV screens, the &#8220;heat of battle&#8221; caused the controllers to slip from sweaty fingers &#8211; neatly imbedding themselves in some fellow&#8217;s expensive wide screen.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; reading the fine print of the iPhone game, it mentions &#8220;casting is activated by an overhand throwing motion&#8221; &#8211; which means the well heeled fellow at the bus stop may want you to &#8220;go long&#8221; &#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>If you want one &#8211; just keep running.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a thought &#8230; $300 per catch may put you in the middle tier payscale for NFL receivers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:1664d9d1-6797-4070-9536-5d71d818a55f\" class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" style=\"padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px\">Technorati Tags: <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/iPhone\">iPhone<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Freeverse\">Freeverse<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Fishing\">Fishing<\/a>, <a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/Video%20games\">Video games<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s little doubt some poor owner will launch an iPhone at a bus stop, you just need to be fast enough to intercept and make a speedy getaway. Video games for the iPhone include Freeverse&#8217;s new Flick Fishing, where casting is activated by a overhand throwing motion akin to the Wii. Sweaty hands means a free phone for a greasy fast fellow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-product"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/singlebarbed.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}