{"id":11108,"date":"2015-12-03T02:45:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/michael-clune-is-out-for-something-slightly\/"},"modified":"2015-12-03T02:45:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-03T02:45:32","slug":"michael-clune-is-out-for-something-slightly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/michael-clune-is-out-for-something-slightly\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>[Michael] Clune is out for something slightly different. \u201cGamelife\u201d uses his memories of playing games as a lens through which to tell a literary coming-of-age story\u2014a bildungsroman put forth in units of screen time. Tightly focussed on that evanescent period between the age of seven and early adolescence, the book\u2019s chapters are each devoted to one of seven different computer games, which together form a sort of digital topography of Clune\u2019s childhood. Unlike many other books and films on video games, the result is a true memoir rather than a veiled manifesto. There are no soaring paragraphs about, for example, how video games offered Clune redemption or purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/coming-of-age-with-video-games\">Coming of Age with Video Games &#8211; Simon Parkin of The New Yorker reviews \u201cGamelife\u201d by Michael Clune<br \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Michael] Clune is out for something slightly different. \u201cGamelife\u201d uses his memories of playing games as a lens through which to tell a literary coming-of-age story\u2014a bildungsroman put forth in units of screen time. Tightly focussed on that evanescent period between the age of seven and early adolescence, the book\u2019s chapters are each devoted to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[193,382],"class_list":["post-11108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-game","tag-memoir","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2Ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}