{"id":30721,"date":"2016-02-16T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30721"},"modified":"2016-02-16T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T19:24:07","slug":"experienced-points-why-make-games-random","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=30721","title":{"rendered":"Experienced Points: Why Make Games Random?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/video-games\/columns\/experienced-points\/15451-Why-are-Games-Random-and-What-Does-Luck-Do\">My column this week<\/a> is a reader question where my answer goes immediately off-topic, devolves into a list, runs long, gets sidetracked, and then ends on a cliffhanger. <\/p>\n<p>No need to thank me. Just doing my job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My column this week is a reader question where my answer goes immediately off-topic, devolves into a list, runs long, gets sidetracked, and then ends on a cliffhanger. No need to thank me. Just doing my job.<\/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":[136,155],"class_list":["post-30721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column","tag-escapist","tag-experienced-points"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721","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=30721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}