{"id":1227,"date":"2013-11-20T01:26:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T01:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/?p=1227"},"modified":"2024-07-23T01:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:35:32","slug":"oaklands-belles-and-chimes-is-the-first-womens-only-pinball-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/?p=1227","title":{"rendered":"Oakland\u2019s Belles and Chimes is the first women\u2019s-only pinball league"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the six pinball machines in the dark upstairs rooms of the pizza joint Hi-Life in downtown Oakland, Nina G. prefers Batman Dark Knight. The local comedian can rack up 17 million points by dodging the Scarecrow\u2019s Crane or fighting the Joker as easily as the Batman himself, while the average player, at best, can only pick up a couple of million. It\u2019s her game.<\/p>\n<p>In the minutes before a Sunday night meeting of Belles and Chimes, Oakland\u2019s women-only pinball league, you can find Nina whapping away at the machine\u2019s flippers, and stomping her boots whenever the ball doesn\u2019t go her way.<\/p>\n<p>Nina is one of about thirty women who\u2019ve attended one of Belles and Chimes\u2019 meetings since the league was established a few months ago. The group\u2019s founder is a woman Nina refers to as the \u201cGloria Steinem of pinball\u201d: Echa Schneider (who also used to run the local news blog A Better Oakland).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oaklandnorth.net\/2013\/11\/20\/oaklands-belles-and-chimes-is-the-first-womens-only-pinball-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on OaklandNorth<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the six pinball machines in the dark upstairs rooms of the pizza joint Hi-Life in downtown Oakland, Nina G. prefers Batman Dark Knight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-mentions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1228,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/1228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.bellesandchimespinball.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}