{"id":5928,"date":"2011-10-03T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=5928"},"modified":"2011-10-03T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T00:25:35","slug":"my-flashback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/10\/03\/my-flashback\/","title":{"rendered":"My flashback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am reading other posts, I am recalling long-forgotten games, not necessarily for me&#8230;my experience with games consists of Space Invaders (yes, that old) and Pong&#8230;but I do recall buying &#8220;educational&#8221; games for my kids, although the quality was definitely not that experienced today. \u00a0I remember Mario Brothers &#8211; and yes, my kids learning typing from Mario teaches typing. And I bought the Learning Connections series of Reader Rabbit and the like&#8230;but my kids were bored silly &#8211; likely due the incredibly slow computers of the day&#8230;no ram to speak of&#8230;They gave up quickly &#8211; and besides, the activities were incredibly lame. \u00a0Since then, I do know that my adult sons are both huge gamers &#8211; as is my grandson. \u00a0My daughter has no interest at all. \u00a0The boys admit it is for the adrenalin rush, and for the ability to lose oneself for a few hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am reading other posts, I am recalling long-forgotten games, not necessarily for me&#8230;my experience with games consists of Space Invaders (yes, that old) and Pong&#8230;but I do recall buying &#8220;educational&#8221; games for my kids, although the quality was definitely not that experienced today. \u00a0I remember Mario Brothers &#8211; and yes, my kids learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[352341],"tags":[2836,2076],"class_list":["post-5928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-05-emerging-market-analysis","tag-gaming","tag-week-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5928"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5934,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5928\/revisions\/5934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}