{"id":3452,"date":"2015-07-16T21:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T21:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3452"},"modified":"2015-07-16T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T21:45:11","slug":"a-little-late-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3452","title":{"rendered":"A little late, but&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in Peace, Satoru Iwata.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/am1IFNPaVV0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What can be said about Satoru Iwata that hasn&#8217;t already been said in the last few days?<\/p>\n<p>He was more than just the President of Nintendo.\u00a0 He\u00a0had been a\u00a0developer since the early 80&#8217;s,\u00a0and had worked on some of the most iconic games ever made.\u00a0 He was also a gamer, which was obviously something all of us could associate with.\u00a0 His enthusiasm for the craft was genuine, and you could feel it every time he spoke in public.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of, well, speaking, Iwata could have\u00a0easily said &#8220;ohh, I&#8217;ll just speak Japanese for the Nintendo Direct broadcasts, and then someone can over-dub it or put in subtitles\u00a0for the rest of the world.&#8221;\u00a0 He never did that, though.\u00a0 Every Direct was quite literally that &#8211; he was speaking directly to us in a language he wasn&#8217;t completely proficient at, but the effort he put into each word\u00a0was quite remarkable.\u00a0 I always appreciated it, and I truly hope he knew how much us fans appreciated how much he cared for not only his company, but also games in general.<\/p>\n<p>He will be greatly missed, and I can&#8217;t help but think the next presentation from Nintendo will leave me with a lump in my throat.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3454\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.jpg\" alt=\"Farewell, Iwata-san.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/iwata-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3454\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farewell, Iwata-san.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rest in Peace, Satoru Iwata. &nbsp; &nbsp; What can be said about Satoru Iwata that hasn&#8217;t already been said in the last few days? He was more than just the President of Nintendo.\u00a0 He\u00a0had been a\u00a0developer since the&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/?p=3452\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-memoriam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3452"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3457,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3452\/revisions\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.controlpadblues.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}