{"id":6944,"date":"2009-03-30T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6944"},"modified":"2009-03-30T08:43:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T15:43:52","slug":"ken-block-becomes-video-game-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=6944","title":{"rendered":"Ken Block Becomes Video Game Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ken-block.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ken-block.jpg','popup','width=468,height=349,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/ken-block-tm.jpg\" height=\"149\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ken Block\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s just not making it in the world anymore unless you appear in a video game. <strong>Ken Block<\/strong> has reportedly signed on to be a character in the rally car video game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirt2game.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Colin McRae Dirt2<\/a><\/strong>, according to a post on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersdailynews.com\/story-9996-Ken-Block-Signs-on-to-Dirt-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Gamers Daily News<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>X Games team-mate of the late Colin McRae, Block is at the forefront of a new breed of pro drivers, competing as Subaru Rally Team USA Driver #43 in the Rally America National Championship and the world-famous X Games. He has also gained notoriety for his mind-blowing stunts in his Subaru WRX STI. For Colin McRae: DiRT 2, Block is working with the development team at Codemasters Studios as technical consultant, lending his wealth of knowledge to the game and advising on car handling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ken is apparently stepping in as the new face of the game after McRae died in a 2007 helicopter crash with his son and two family friends. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dirt2game.com\/#\/us\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to watch Ken&#8217;s new promo video for the game<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamersdailynews.com\/story-9996-Ken-Block-Signs-on-to-Dirt-2.html\">Gamers Daily News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s just not making it in the world anymore unless you appear in a video game. Ken Block has reportedly signed on to be a character in the rally car video game Colin McRae Dirt2, according to a post on Gamers Daily News. X Games team-mate of the late Colin McRae, Block is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6945,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6944\/revisions\/6945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}