{"id":13112,"date":"2020-08-01T16:17:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-01T15:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13112"},"modified":"2020-08-01T16:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T15:49:17","slug":"rock-n-rollergames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13112","title":{"rendered":"Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Rollergames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two posts in one day? Blimey. However I was alerted to the existence of one-year wonder 1990 roller derby show <strong>Rollergames<\/strong> by US gameshow fandom legend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/lambertman\">@lambertman<\/a> on Twitter, and looking it up on Youtube I <em>love<\/em> it, and also feel no real need to watch any more than an episode of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"665\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MP6xT_ThxdI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I only have a basic understanding of what&#8217;s going on, you get points for getting high up the banked wall and jumping over the jump and your frontman lapping your opponents (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/RollerGames\">the Wikipedia article is here<\/a>), basically it&#8217;s an excuse for lots of drama and fighting. As such the central conceit doesn&#8217;t hold up all that well, but it&#8217;s worth watching one episode of for the theatrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two posts in one day? Blimey. However I was alerted to the existence of one-year wonder 1990 roller derby show Rollergames by US gameshow fandom legend @lambertman on Twitter, and looking it up on Youtube I love it, and also feel no real need to watch any more than an episode of it. I only\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13112\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3pu","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}