{"id":31235,"date":"2011-03-30T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sometimes-i-feel-bad-for-these-gamification\/"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T13:54:00","slug":"sometimes-i-feel-bad-for-these-gamification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/sometimes-i-feel-bad-for-these-gamification\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Sometimes I feel bad for these gamification enthusiasts. Priebatsch longs to change the term valedictorian to White Knight Paladin. And McGonigal, whose games are filled with top-secret missions in which you get to play the superhero, says \u201creality is broken\u201d because people don\u2019t get to feel \u201cepic\u201d often enough. This is a child\u2019s view of how the world works. Do adults really need to pretend they\u2019re superheroes on secret missions to have meaning in their lives?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Heather Chaplin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2289302\/pagenum\/2\">Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn\u2019t as fun as it sounds.<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/notgames.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notgames<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I feel bad for these gamification enthusiasts. Priebatsch longs to change the term valedictorian to White Knight Paladin. And McGonigal, whose games are filled with top-secret missions in which you get to play the superhero, says \u201creality is broken\u201d because people don\u2019t get to feel \u201cepic\u201d often enough. This is a child\u2019s view of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-31235","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-87N","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235","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=31235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}