{"id":1765,"date":"2009-02-11T13:27:40","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2009-02-11T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T19:27:40","slug":"really-great-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/11\/really-great-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Really Great Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/csmbook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1792\" title=\"csmbook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/csmbook-107x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>subtitle: For Kids and Families <span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">&#8211; <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">As the pioneer gaming\/website expert on gaming and children, I was actually happy when I saw CommonSenseMedia.org launch. It gave nonprofit legitimacy to this GamerDad vision I had, and that was personally very satisfying. Well, I worked for them for a while and lo and behold my name appears in the acknowlegements. Potentially there are scores of reviews written personally by your own GamerDad. The book: <\/span>Really Great Video Games <span style=\"font-style: normal;\">has hundreds of reviews at your fingertips. Bring on the royalties, right?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yep!<\/p>\n<p>Bring on the royalties! Whoooo! We could use the extra scratch and . . . what? The contract says they only have to pay me once for those reviews. Not when they get reprinted. Sigh. At least it&#8217;s a resume point. Yet another book the GamerDad has made just a little bit more useful and better.I&#8217;d love to send you a link but I can&#8217;t find it on sale anywhere? \u00a0It is priced a $9.95. It really does exist, or at least if it doesn&#8217;t, then they sent me a HUH? WAH? Oh NO! This isn&#8217;t a book at all it&#8217;s a Mario bomb-omb? \u00a0No, it&#8217;s actually pretty\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal;\">useful. If some of my old colleagues are still in that Ivory Tower &#8211; please let me know how my fans can buy your book. K? Thx!<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Toad&#8217;s Bomb a 5\/7\/5 Haiku\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Toad\u00a0threw the Bomb-omb <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Just after picking up a Star<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Mario&#8217;s Kart &#8211; flew far<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>subtitle: For Kids and Families &#8211; As the pioneer gaming\/website expert on gaming and children, I was actually happy when I saw CommonSenseMedia.org launch. It gave nonprofit legitimacy to this GamerDad vision I had, and that was personally very satisfying. Well, I worked for them for a while and lo and behold my name appears [&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-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","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=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}