{"id":2189,"date":"2014-01-23T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/forums-and-instant-messages-were-the-key-mediums\/"},"modified":"2015-01-04T17:06:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T16:06:53","slug":"forums-and-instant-messages-were-the-key-mediums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/forums-and-instant-messages-were-the-key-mediums\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>Forums and instant messages were the key mediums for speed running theory to spread through the mid-2000s, but it remained a niche hobby. Live video streaming, which took off at the beginning of this decade, has since made it a medium for mass consumption.<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"attribution\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/features\/2014\/1\/9\/5280786\/making-money-zelda-speed-runner\">Making money as a Zelda speed runner | Polygon<\/a><\/p>\n\n<p>It\u2019s really interesting what streaming is doing to games\u2026 I love speed running because it turns products initially meant for consumption into instruments with which to perform.<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forums and instant messages were the key mediums for speed running theory to spread through the mid-2000s, but it remained a niche hobby. Live video streaming, which took off at the beginning of this decade, has since made it a medium for mass consumption. Making money as a Zelda speed runner | Polygon It\u2019s really &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/01\/23\/forums-and-instant-messages-were-the-key-mediums\/\" 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-2189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189","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=2189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}