{"id":100341,"date":"2019-09-17T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/random_apparently_kirby_might_purr_happily_if_you_pet_him"},"modified":"2019-09-17T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T16:15:00","slug":"random-apparently-kirby-might-purr-happily-if-you-pet-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/17\/random-apparently-kirby-might-purr-happily-if-you-pet-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Apparently Kirby &#8216;Might Purr Happily&#8217; If You Pet Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e96afc6b46ef7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e96afc6b46ef7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Kirby\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e96afc6b46ef7\/kirby.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e96afc6b46ef7\/kirby.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Kirby\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>We did it, folks. We&#8217;ve finally stumbled across the news everyone was desperately hoping for. Yes, Kirby will apparently purr if you pet him.<\/p>\n<p>We were tempted to just end the article there &#8211; because let&#8217;s face it, that&#8217;s a happier news story than the vast majority of things you&#8217;d read in real-world news &#8211; but we should probably explain. The revelation comes from a piece of supplementary material that was first shared around the time that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nes\/kirbys_adventure\"><strong>Kirby&#8217;s Adventure<\/strong><\/a> released on NES.<\/p>\n<p>This material was shared once again in Pupupu Taizen, an encyclopedia all about Kirby which was released in Japan in 2012 (you can see it <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/myfigurecollection.net\/item\/392079\">here<\/a>). The book celebrated Kirby&#8217;s 20th anniversary, and the text referring to the petting of our favourite happy video game blob has now been posted online by @kaialone02.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Note:<\/p>\n<p>This was archived on page 119 of Pupupu Taizen, which is where I know this from. But because this info is originally from years and years ago, it&#8217;s of course unclear if this would still be considered &#8220;canon&#8221; in the modern era.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m sure as heck gonna consider it canon.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Yo-kaialone (@kaialone02) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaialone02\/status\/1173330421158948866?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>We can&#8217;t recall any games featuring a scene where the player can stroke Kirby or give him a gentle pat on the head, but we now know exactly how our next &#8216;Kirby &#8211; What We&#8217;d Like To See&#8217; feature will take shape. If anyone&#8217;s uncle really does work at Nintendo, now&#8217;s your time to shine by passing on our hopes and dreams.<\/p>\n<p><em>In the meantime, someone better get <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CanYouPetTheDog\">@CanYouPetTheDog<\/a> on the line, too.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We did it, folks. We&#8217;ve finally stumbled across the news everyone was desperately hoping for. Yes, Kirby will apparently purr if you pet him. We were tempted to just end the article there &#8211; because let&#8217;s face it, that&#8217;s a happier news story than the vast majority of things you&#8217;d read in real-world news &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}