{"id":1508,"date":"2008-11-19T13:07:33","date_gmt":"2008-11-19T19:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2008-11-19T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T19:07:33","slug":"mississippi-library-association-keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/19\/mississippi-library-association-keynote\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi Library Association Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I jet off to Jackson Mississippi to address a few hundred librarians while they eat dinner. I&#8217;ll probably be helping them with their game night too. To be honest? I can&#8217;t wait. It&#8217;s fun and fine to chat with gamers and gamerparents, especially at a place like PAX, but I can&#8217;t move people there. I can&#8217;t defend gaming and I can&#8217;t explain why I think it&#8217;s crucial that libraries be involved and make games available to everyone who can afford a console &#8211; not just the rich. If I can change a few minds, I can really help a lot of parents and kids. Thank you MLA for this opportunity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow morning I jet off to Jackson Mississippi to address a few hundred librarians while they eat dinner. I&#8217;ll probably be helping them with their game night too. To be honest? I can&#8217;t wait. It&#8217;s fun and fine to chat with gamers and gamerparents, especially at a place like PAX, but I can&#8217;t move people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}