{"id":2794,"date":"2016-02-04T18:58:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2794"},"modified":"2016-02-04T18:58:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T02:58:07","slug":"catching-em-all-for-20-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/catching-em-all-for-20-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching \u2018em all for 20 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Declan Hertel\r\nEntertainment Editor<\/pre>\n<p>When it comes to my generation, I prefer the moniker \u201c\u201990s Kids\u201d to \u201cMillenials\u201d because at least the derision \u201c\u201990s Kids\u201d carries is self-inflicted. And \u201c\u201990s Kids\u201d are now reaching that age where they\u2019re realizing that the things they love are aging with them, and not too long ago, a beloved franchise had an early release of their anniversary Super Bowl ad: kids, Pok\u00e9mon just turned 20.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you just emerging from that cave and joining the surface dwellers, Pok\u00e9mon are fantastic creatures that inhabit far off lands, and certain humans that live in those lands, Pok\u00e9mon Trainers, capture them, befriend them, and pit their team of Pok\u00e9mon against the teams of their rivals in Pok\u00e9mon battles.<\/p>\n<p>With six generations of Pocket Monsters (\u201cPok\u00e9mon\u201d is a portmanteau) in a long-running anime and series of movies, a trading card game, twenty-four video games in the main series with a great many spinoffs plus an augmented-reality game on the way, and no end in sight for any of that, Pok\u00e9mon is a cultural force to be reckoned with the world over, especially in America and Japan, its country of origin.<\/p>\n<p>People love Pok\u00e9mon. There are countless videos of Pok\u00e9mon events wherein a large contingency of people dress up as Pikachu, the most iconic Pok\u00e9mon, and perform silly dances. There is a very active \u201cTrainer\u201d community, with players of all colors and creeds coming together to whoop on each other\u2019s virtual pets. Even the Trading Card Game, which is admittedly not as popular as it once was, still has a dedicated player base (that I would be an unashamed part of if I had time or money).<\/p>\n<p>I was honestly a bit inspired by the ad put out by The Pok\u00e9mon Company, probably because I\u2019ve grown up with it. The message the franchise has always carried is gloriously represented: if you work hard and never, ever give up, you can be the very best, like no one ever was. Train on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to my generation, I prefer the moniker \u201c\u201990s Kids\u201d to \u201cMillenials\u201d because at least the derision \u201c\u201990s Kids\u201d carries is self-inflicted. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}