{"id":27205,"date":"2014-06-30T14:47:15","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/edward-pistolhands\/"},"modified":"2014-06-30T14:47:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:47:15","slug":"edward-pistolhands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/edward-pistolhands\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Pistolhands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/90339051489\/edward-pistolhands\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">stilleatingoranges<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Controversy has for decades surrounded the issue of violence in video games. Much of this controversy, needless to say, has derived from ignorance and political opportunism. But a valid observation lies at the hubbub\u2019s root. In video games, violence increasingly has been used as an organizing principle\u2014even <em>the<\/em> organizing principle\u2014behind gameplay. Too often violence is neither incidental nor contextually appropriate. Rather, it is an incongruous medium for all of one\u2019s interactions. The player becomes, in the words of game designer and theorist Marc LeBlanc, <em>Edward Pistolhands<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stilleatingoranges.tumblr.com\/post\/90339051489\/edward-pistolhands\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stilleatingoranges: Controversy has for decades surrounded the issue of violence in video games. Much of this controversy, needless to say, has derived from ignorance and political opportunism. But a valid observation lies at the hubbub\u2019s root. In video games, violence increasingly has been used as an organizing principle\u2014even the organizing principle\u2014behind gameplay. Too often violence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[441],"class_list":["post-27205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-to-read"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-74N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205","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=27205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}