{"id":2169,"date":"2014-02-20T08:46:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/20\/yes-we-play-games-like-we-do-sports-and-yes\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:52","slug":"yes-we-play-games-like-we-do-sports-and-yes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/20\/yes-we-play-games-like-we-do-sports-and-yes\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Yes, we \u201cplay\u201d games like we do sports, and yes, games bear \u201cmeaning\u201d as do the fine and plastic arts. But something else is at work in games. Games are devices we operate.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/02\/the-squalid-grace-of-flappy-bird\/283526\/\">The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird &#8211; Ian Bogost &#8211; The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>Just one highlight from a Bogost piece I could quote almost entirely it\u2019s so great. The best thing I\u2019ve read on games in ages. Don\u2019t be fooled, this discusses Flappy Bird, but it\u2019s not a Flappy Bird article. Read it.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, we \u201cplay\u201d games like we do sports, and yes, games bear \u201cmeaning\u201d as do the fine and plastic arts. But something else is at work in games. Games are devices we operate. The Squalid Grace of Flappy Bird &#8211; Ian Bogost &#8211; The Atlantic Just one highlight from a Bogost piece I could quote &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/02\/20\/yes-we-play-games-like-we-do-sports-and-yes\/\" 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-2169","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\/2169","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=2169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2503,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2169\/revisions\/2503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}