{"id":1177,"date":"2003-05-09T05:05:49","date_gmt":"2003-05-09T19:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/09\/im-still-gambit\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T08:13:31","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T16:13:31","slug":"im-still-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/05\/09\/im-still-gambit\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m (still) Gambit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14698,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kung-foo.tv\\\/blog\\\/archives\\\/000489.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.kung-foo.tv\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:14699,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/users.bigpond.net.au\\\/snafu\\\/bbtb\\\/xmen\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030423172301\\\/http:\\\/\\\/users.bigpond.net.au:80\\\/snafu\\\/bbtb\\\/xmen\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 01:51:40&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:08:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 22:08:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/05\/graphics\/gambit.jpg\" title=\"Gambit\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gambit\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/05\/graphics\/gambit-thumb.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"96\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After discovering that he was Nightcrawler, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kung-foo.tv\/blog\/archives\/000489.php\" title=\"Which X-Man are you?\">Adriaan asked<\/a> which X-Man the rest of us are. So, I <a href=\"http:\/\/users.bigpond.net.au\/snafu\/bbtb\/xmen\/index.html\" title=\"Which X-Man are you?\">took the test<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <strong>Name:<\/strong> Gambit<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>POB:<\/strong> USA<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Mutant Power:<\/strong>Through physical contact, Gambit can charge inanimate objects with kinetic energy, which is released on contact with explosive results. Gambit also has slightly enhanced agility and speed.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>Brief Bio:<\/strong>Growing up alone in New Orleans as a pickpocket, Gambit&#8217;s red eyes always set him apart. A thief and a ladies man, Gambit joined the X-MEN after rescuing Storm from the Shadow King.<\/p>\n<p>  Gambit and Rogue have always had an on\/off relationship, because of the barrier of her powers. They did manage to get it on once though, when a villain removed their powers temporarily whilst holding them prisoner below Antarctica.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The really amusing thing is that when I took a similar test <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/06\/gambit.html\" title=\"Gambit\">back last June<\/a>, it said I was Gambit, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through physical contact, Gambit can charge inanimate objects with kinetic energy, which is released on contact with explosive results. Gambit also has slightly enhanced agility and speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}