{"id":2143,"date":"2014-03-10T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/games-are-powerful-and-important-partly-because\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:51","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:51","slug":"games-are-powerful-and-important-partly-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/games-are-powerful-and-important-partly-because\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Games are powerful and important partly because they help us test out the limits of ordinary life. That\u2019s why we play. And these free-to-play games allow us to feel the edges of the unholy reality of our current winner-take-all neo-Gilded Age.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebaffler.com\/past\/rage_against_the_machines\">Rage Against the Machines | Ian Bogost | The Baffler<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Bogost on free-to-play games, arguing they are the latest incarnation of a long line if swindles. Hardly a novel insight, but well-argued as usual.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Games are powerful and important partly because they help us test out the limits of ordinary life. That\u2019s why we play. And these free-to-play games allow us to feel the edges of the unholy reality of our current winner-take-all neo-Gilded Age. Rage Against the Machines | Ian Bogost | The Baffler Bogost on free-to-play games, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/games-are-powerful-and-important-partly-because\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2481,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143\/revisions\/2481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}