{"id":38590,"date":"2023-05-13T00:07:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T07:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=38590"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:39:45","slug":"tears-of-the-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/tears-of-the-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Tears of the Kingdom’ Alert: How a 1980s Nintendo Mom Lost Her Cool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Big “Tears of the Kingdom” Release<\/strong><\/h5>\n

As the latest Nintendo game, ‘Tears of the Kingdom,” finds its way into Switches all over the country this weekend, a first-generation Nintendo Mom recalls how, in a fit of exasperation, she pulled the plug on the original Legend of Zelda game back in 1989 — to her son’s dismay.<\/p>\n

How will twenty-first century moms and dads deal with the lure of “Tears of the Kingdom, which just might be the best Legend of Zelda game ever?<\/p>\n

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Confessions of a Nintendo Mom — <\/strong>The Day I Unplugged My Eight-Year-Old Son<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n
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April 30,1989.<\/em> “Like any normal person with a job, two kids and a front yard full of weeds, I had been sleeping in on a Sunday morning \u2013 until the sound of Jon and Peter playing the new Nintendo woke me up. I burst in on them. \u201cHEY. YOU WOKE ME UP.\u201d No answer. So enraptured were they with their dratted boomerangs and Oktoroks they didn\u2019t care that they had wrecked my beautiful Sunday morning sleep-in. I stomped back to bed, covered my head and cried.”\u00a0 Read more<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Attention “Tears of the Kingdom” moms: A first-generation Nintendo mom confesses to unplugging her son’s Legend of Zelda game back in 1989.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[850,2705,2706,2707,2708],"class_list":["post-38590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-changing-family","tag-legend-of-zelda","tag-nintendo-mom","tag-nintendo-parental-support","tag-nintendo-switch","tag-tears-of-the-kingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49017,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38590\/revisions\/49017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}