{"id":1507,"date":"2008-02-01T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1507"},"modified":"2008-02-01T02:20:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T07:20:08","slug":"old-grandma-hardcore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=1507","title":{"rendered":"Old Grandma Hardcore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/girlsdontgame.com\/2008\/01\/31\/interview-with-old-grandma-hardcore\/\">Here is an interesting gamer<\/a>:  A &#8220;hardcore&#8221; gamer who is a woman over the age of X, where X is a number I&#8217;m too polite to guess at.  <\/p>\n<p>It does make me wonder why this is quite such a rare thing.  Why aren&#8217;t more seniors into gaming? I&#8217;m not talking about &#8220;why don&#8217;t they make more low-key casual games to appeal to the WWII generation&#8221;, I&#8217;m talking about &#8220;Why don&#8217;t a few of them get into shooters and RTS games with the rest of us?&#8221;  It&#8217;s not for everyone, but it&#8217;s clearly a fun hobby for some people.  Yet in this multi-billion dollar industry the idea of a grandma pwning n00bs and so on is rare enough to merit <em>news coverage<\/em>.  <\/p>\n<p>Still, the more the merrier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is an interesting gamer: A &#8220;hardcore&#8221; gamer who is a woman over the age of X, where X is a number I&#8217;m too polite to guess at. It does make me wonder why this is quite such a rare thing. Why aren&#8217;t more seniors into gaming? I&#8217;m not talking about &#8220;why don&#8217;t they make [&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-1507","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\/1507","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=1507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}