{"id":12446,"date":"2018-02-09T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/random_u_s_curling_team_member_matt_hamilton_sure_reminds_us_of_someone"},"modified":"2018-02-09T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T10:15:00","slug":"random-u-s-curling-team-member-matt-hamilton-sure-reminds-us-of-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/09\/random-u-s-curling-team-member-matt-hamilton-sure-reminds-us-of-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: U.S. Curling Team Member Matt Hamilton Sure Reminds Us Of Someone"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Rub rub rub\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/random_u_s_curling_team_member_matt_hamilton_sure_reminds_us_of_someone\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/random_u_s_curling_team_member_matt_hamilton_sure_reminds_us_of_someone\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Rub rub rub\" \/><\/a><span class=\"image-credit\" title=\"Image Credit\">\u00a9 Associated Press<\/span><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The\u00a0Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will be making sports headlines for the next few days, but one story we didn&#8217;t expect to see is the fact that a\u00a0<strong>Super Mario<\/strong> lookalike is taking part.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Curling Team member Matt Hamilton &#8211; alongside his sister\u00a0Becca\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0holds the distinction of\u00a0winning the first Olympic mixed doubles curling match\u00a0in history. However, he&#8217;s currently gaining column inches due to the fact that he bears a <em>slight<\/em> resemblance to a certain video game mascot.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spot the difference. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MattJamilton?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MattJamilton<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/s1XxSYqnsw\">pic.twitter.com\/s1XxSYqnsw<\/a><\/span>\u2014 U.S. Olympic Team (@TeamUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamUSA\/status\/961419657960935424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Sure, the likeness isn&#8217;t exactly <em>massive<\/em>, but the fact that the official Twitter account of the U.S. Olympic Team has tweeted about it is amusing. For his part, Matt has remained silent &#8211; but he did re-tweet the original image, so we assume he approves of the comparison.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks to\u00a0SLIGEACH_EIRE for the tip!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a9 Associated Press The\u00a0Pyeongchang Winter Olympics will be making sports headlines for the next few days, but one story we didn&#8217;t expect to see is the fact that a\u00a0Super Mario lookalike is taking part. U.S. Curling Team member Matt Hamilton &#8211; alongside his sister\u00a0Becca\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0holds the distinction of\u00a0winning the first Olympic mixed doubles curling match\u00a0in history. [&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-12446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446","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=12446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}