{"id":98,"date":"2008-03-05T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/gotw-balloon-invasion\/"},"modified":"2008-03-05T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2008-03-05T21:54:47","slug":"gotw-balloon-invasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/gotw-balloon-invasion\/","title":{"rendered":"GOTW &#8211; Balloon Invasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ballooninvasion.JPG\" title=\"Balloon Invasion\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/ballooninvasion.JPG\" alt=\"Balloon Invasion\" height=\"359\" width=\"538\" \/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Game of the Week &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gameinabottle.com\/ballooninvasion.php\" target=\"_blank\">Balloon Invasion<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">I know that it has been a while since I&#8217;ve had a GOTW entry and for that my apologies.\u00a0 This latest game is something I found online in the last couple of days and am currently hooked.\u00a0 This is a cross between a Tower Defense like game and a shoot &#8217;em.\u00a0 You&#8217;re primary goals are to destroy all of the balloon enemies while protecting your primary turret.\u00a0 Throughout the game you earn prestige and this allows you to upgrade your main weapon as well as purchase the ability to use other weapons and support defenses.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The game isn&#8217;t overly complex and is fairly easy to get the hang of the controls and options.\u00a0 However, the levels can get quite difficult and over time it is not just good enough to beat a level; you have to do so while excelling in order to earn upgrades for the next levels.\u00a0 You are able to go back to previously conquered levels to attempt to get a higher score and ranking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/gotw-balloon-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game of the Week &#8211; Balloon Invasion<br \/>\nI know that it has been a while since I&#8217;ve had a GOTW entry and for that my apologies.\u00a0 This latest game is something I found online in the last couple of days and am currently hooked.\u00a0 This is a cross between a Tower Defense like game and a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/05\/gotw-balloon-invasion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-facebook-plugin\/facebook_share_icon.gif\" alt=\"Share on Facebook\" title=\"Share on Facebook\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spencer.stantonfamilyonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}