{"id":30145,"date":"2012-05-03T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/yet-for-gamers-to-just-sweep-that-important-first\/"},"modified":"2012-05-03T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T13:38:08","slug":"yet-for-gamers-to-just-sweep-that-important-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/yet-for-gamers-to-just-sweep-that-important-first\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Yet for gamers to just sweep that important first part [that most videogames are \u201cincredibly silly\u201d] under the rug over and over again in favor of brainless, high-octane enjoyment feels like a crime against the medium they love. To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck\u2019s obvious dreckiness just because the other parts of a game are cool-is to allow the form to languish forever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Taylor Clark (via <a href=\"http:\/\/notgames.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notgames<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet for gamers to just sweep that important first part [that most videogames are \u201cincredibly silly\u201d] under the rug over and over again in favor of brainless, high-octane enjoyment feels like a crime against the medium they love. To accept childish dreck without protest-or worse, to defend the dreck\u2019s obvious dreckiness just because the other [&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":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Qd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145","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=30145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}