{"id":562,"date":"2006-11-03T16:35:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T22:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/11\/03\/guitar-hero-v-kidz-beats\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T16:35:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T22:35:59","slug":"guitar-hero-v-kidz-beats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Hero v Kidz Beats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier we mentioned that we bought Eli a toy guitar to carry for Halloween as part of his Guitar Hero costume. In the picture below you can see a Guitar Hero guitar\/controller for the PS2 game on the left and Eli&#8217;s Kidz Beats guitar on the right.<\/p>\n<div class=\"centerimage\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/2006\/Nov\/guitars.jpg\" alt=\"Two toy guitars\" title=\"On the surface, they appear very similar\" \/><\/div>\n<p>They resemble each other, yes? But a closer look turns up some notable discrepancies.<\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"10\">\n<tr>\n<th><b>Guitar Hero Controller<\/b><\/th>\n<th><b>Kidz Beats Guitar<\/b><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5 fret buttons<\/td>\n<td>8 fret buttons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>No built-in songs<\/td>\n<td>Many built-in songs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chords must be manually played<\/td>\n<td>Auto-chording mode<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Annoying cord<\/td>\n<td>Cordless<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Black-and-white body<\/td>\n<td>Rockin&#8217; colors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>$30<\/td>\n<td>$10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>I had no idea Harmonix and Red Octane were ripping me off like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier we mentioned that we bought Eli a toy guitar to carry for Halloween as part of his Guitar Hero costume. In the picture below you can see a Guitar Hero guitar\/controller for the PS2 game on the left and Eli&#8217;s Kidz Beats guitar on the right. They resemble each other, yes? But a closer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=562\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guitar Hero v Kidz Beats<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}