{"id":1766,"date":"2009-03-26T10:47:26","date_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2009-03-26T10:47:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T16:47:26","slug":"gamerdad-bbc-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/26\/gamerdad-bbc-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"GamerDad &#038; BBC Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ee; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bbc-news-generic-2003-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1346\" title=\"bbc-news-generic-2003-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bbc-news-generic-2003-1-150x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/span>The British Broadcasting Corporation\u00a0(BBC) first contacted me about a year into my doing GamerDad. The interview went well, but there was obvious doubt and hostility from the other end and the piece they ran emphasized the &#8220;being careful&#8221; part of my argument but used &#8220;games can&#8217;t be good for you&#8221;, which isn&#8217;t my philosophy. Last September a nice journalist from BBC Radio contacted me about doing a pro-gaming\/pro-family thing.\u00a0 And that we&#8217;d get to be on the Radio in Britain!<!--more-->They sent us a microphone, a minidisc recorder, and told us to play games and talk about them as a family. \u00a0Criminally she used NOTHING from Henry &#8211; who is hilarious &#8211; and she used more from another website owners family. Anyway, it&#8217;s short as heck, give it a listen and hear the family you keep reading about!\u00a0 It&#8217;s linked or embeded on the next page!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">We are super-high tech here.\u00a0 What I did was film a pillow &#8211; got a little silly &#8211; as the audio they sent me played. I prefer having that URL there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v9DbsvIe9PU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/v9DbsvIe9PU\" \/><\/object>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Broadcasting Corporation\u00a0(BBC) first contacted me about a year into my doing GamerDad. The interview went well, but there was obvious doubt and hostility from the other end and the piece they ran emphasized the &#8220;being careful&#8221; part of my argument but used &#8220;games can&#8217;t be good for you&#8221;, which isn&#8217;t my philosophy. Last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gamerdad-press","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766","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=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}