{"id":258,"date":"2013-04-17T15:22:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bensbargains.net\/thecheckout\/?p=258"},"modified":"2013-04-17T18:23:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T01:23:57","slug":"hadouken-meme-explodes-on-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/awesomeness\/hadouken-meme-explodes-on-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hadouken! meme explodes on the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Breaking out in Japan recently, schoolgirls have started posting Street Fighter<\/em>-style\u00a0images of throwing imaginary Hadouken!\u00a0lighting balls at each other. One girl will get into a pose of launching a lighting ball and anyone else around her will jump as if the lighting is striking them when the shot is taken. This “Hadouken special\u00a0attack” is used by characters within the\u00a0Street Fighter <\/i>video game series as well as appearing in Mega Man X<\/em>. <\/i>Check out the images below to see what it looks like:
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Hadouken!<\/h2>\n

\"Hadouken-1\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-2\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-3\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-4\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-5\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-6\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-7\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-8\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-9\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-10\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-11\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-12\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-13\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-14\"<\/a> \"Hadouken-15\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Bonus Picture: Vadering!<\/h2>\n

\"vadering\"<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Breaking out in Japan recently, schoolgirls have started posting Street Fighter-style\u00a0images of throwing imaginary Hadouken!\u00a0lighting balls at each other. One girl will get into a pose of launching a lighting ball and anyone else around her will jump as if the lighting is striking them when the shot is taken. This “Hadouken special\u00a0attack” is used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[42,41,25],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awesomeness","tag-hadouken","tag-meme","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensbargains.com\/thecheckout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}