{"id":1492,"date":"2008-01-16T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1492"},"modified":"2008-01-16T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:39:34","slug":"feeding-the-troll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1492","title":{"rendered":"Feeding the Troll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note that <a href=\"?p=1490\">that guy I lambasted yesterday<\/a> got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penny-arcade.com\/comic\/2008\/01\/15\">the Penny Arcade treatment<\/a>, which is far crueler than anything I could have mustered despite my nigh-unquenchable rage.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/kevinmccullough.townhall.com\/blog\/g\/cdfe6d1d-9595-45c5-bdae-af17bcfd244e\">posted a follow-up<\/a> and a semi-apology, which means more or less nothing to me.  It sounds like we&#8217;re all buddies now, but he still wants M-rated games taken off the shelves.  He can make all the noises he likes about &#8220;having a conversation&#8221; with the gaming community, but he&#8217;s no different than any other authoritarian book-burner out there, except he&#8217;s the hip new digital sort.  <\/p>\n<p>I shouldn&#8217;t even be giving the guy the exposure, but I&#8217;m weak. <small>(Plus, I didn&#8217;t have time to write anything interesting for today.)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick note that that guy I lambasted yesterday got the Penny Arcade treatment, which is far crueler than anything I could have mustered despite my nigh-unquenchable rage. He&#8217;s posted a follow-up and a semi-apology, which means more or less nothing to me. It sounds like we&#8217;re all buddies now, but he still wants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}