{"id":295,"date":"2007-11-11T12:21:55","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=295"},"modified":"2007-11-11T12:22:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T19:22:21","slug":"ninja-warrior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"Ninja Warrior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love game shows. Game shows morphed into reality shows, and I watch some of them when there&#8217;s a game underneath (<em>Survivor<\/em>), and I was happy to hear that <em>American Gladiators<\/em> is coming back. But until it does, I stumbled upon something on G4 &#8212; yeah, I know! &#8212; that totally made me happy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/ninjawarrior\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ninja Warrior<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Japanese import of 100 people trying to tackle four stages of a brutal obstacle course &#8212; and it&#8217;s mesmerizing. They change the course between seasons, and G4 is running different seasons of the show out of order so it&#8217;s tough to follow along, but some of the obstacles are completely insane. Just seeing people get past them is entertaining, and you wind up rooting for everybody you watch.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/ninjawarrior.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So do the competitors. There&#8217;s no backstabbing, there&#8217;s no &#8220;take this guy out&#8221; dynamic, and there&#8217;s no one ultimate winner &#8212; everybody wants to get past the challenges, but nobody talks trash and nobody blames anyone but themselves for when they cannot meet the goal &#8212; and almost nobody has. In 10 years on the air in Japan, only two people have ever beaten the challenges. It&#8217;s like <em>Who Wants To Be A Millionaire<\/em> for people with upper-body strength.<\/p>\n<p>Grab some of the episodes of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g4tv.com\/podcasts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">video podcast<\/a> then go set TiVo. You&#8217;ll wanna see this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love game shows. Game shows morphed into reality shows, and I watch some of them when there&#8217;s a game underneath (Survivor), and I was happy to hear that American Gladiators is coming back. But until it does, I stumbled &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}