{"id":30080,"date":"2015-12-29T00:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T05:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30080"},"modified":"2015-12-29T12:38:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T17:38:45","slug":"experienced-points-yes-minecraft-is-still-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30080","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Yes, Minecraft is Still a Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week seems like it&#8217;s about Minecraft, but really it&#8217;s about the occasional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/15175-Minecraft-is-Still-A-Thing\">disconnect between the hype-driven gaming press and the actual interests and passions of gaming culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I include myself in this. If I did my writing based on what I was playing, this would be a &#8220;Minecraft and retro games&#8221; blog, with a new AAA game thrown in a few times a year for variety. Deciding what to talk about is always a balancing act between what you&#8217;re into and what you think other people want to talk about. It&#8217;s not <em>bad<\/em>, it&#8217;s just a strange artifact of this process that sometimes games that are a huge deal end up vanishing into their own subculture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week seems like it&#8217;s about Minecraft, but really it&#8217;s about the occasional disconnect between the hype-driven gaming press and the actual interests and passions of gaming culture. I include myself in this. If I did my writing based on what I was playing, this would be a &#8220;Minecraft and retro games&#8221; blog, [&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":[211],"class_list":["post-30080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080","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=30080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}