{"id":26669,"date":"2015-05-05T17:12:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26669"},"modified":"2015-05-05T17:12:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T22:12:27","slug":"experienced-points-screen-time-and-summer-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=26669","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Screen Time and Summer Releases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/13881-How-to-Manage-Kids-Gaming-Time-and-Tackle-the-Summer-Slowdown\">a mailbag episode<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Also, this is a pretty good illustration of how important titles are on a site like The Escapist. I knew the title was kinda flat. It doesn&#8217;t state anything bold, or ask a question, mention a current controversy, or promise to explain something. It just mentions two disparate topics. As of this writing, my column has been up for about three hours and doesn&#8217;t have a single response. On other weeks, I&#8217;d have at least a dozen by now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\">A few Past titles with more &#8220;grabby&#8221; headlines<\/a>:<br \/>\nWhat the Heck is a Fractal&#8230;<br \/>\nThese Games Were Ruined by&#8230;<br \/>\n5 Things to Do if&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All of those performed far better than this one. <\/p>\n<p>I know we&#8217;ll get a discussion here on the blog, but that&#8217;s because you&#8217;re here looking for stuff &#8220;by Shamus&#8221;. That&#8217;s fundamentally different than looking for, &#8220;Stuff to kill a few minutes&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is basically a mailbag episode. Also, this is a pretty good illustration of how important titles are on a site like The Escapist. I knew the title was kinda flat. It doesn&#8217;t state anything bold, or ask a question, mention a current controversy, or promise to explain something. It just mentions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669","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=26669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}