{"id":230,"date":"2021-07-22T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-07-22T09:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T13:58:47","slug":"museum-of-pinball-closing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/museum-of-pinball-closing\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Of Pinball Closing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This one hits particularly <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/2021\/07\/a-look-back-at-the-museum-of-pinballs-huge-collection-of-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">close to home<\/a>. My father was a pinball wizard he could play any pinball game you wanted for at least fifteen minutes on a single quarter. Well it looks the museum will be following my father and be no more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-green-color\">In 2015, we took you on a photo tour of the Museum of Pinball, home to one of the world&#8217;s largest collections of pinball and arcade games under one roof. Since then, the number of games grew by hundreds; the last official count was &#8220;over 1,100.&#8221; Sadly, the museum is closing for good (and being replaced by a cannabis-growing operation). An attempt to relocate the museum to Palm Springs, California, failed, and the entire collection of games will be going up for auction soon.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one hits particularly close to home. My father was a pinball wizard he could play any pinball game you wanted for at least fifteen minutes on a single quarter. Well it looks the museum will be following my father and be no more. In 2015, we took you on a photo tour of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/museum-of-pinball-closing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Museum Of Pinball Closing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/monster-hardware.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}