{"id":1767,"date":"2009-02-04T21:19:31","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2009-02-04T21:19:31","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T03:19:31","slug":"beware-the-ides-of-feb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/beware-the-ides-of-feb\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Ides of Feb . . . ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ides&#8221; means the 15th and you should all &#8220;beware&#8221; of it because it marks the day that GamerDad.com began buying YOUR stories about YOUR kids and games &#8211; or YOURSELF and video games. How will I &#8220;buy&#8221; them? Well, you&#8217;ll get your name and story made famous and I&#8217;ll link the story to the game maker. But I&#8217;ll also give you a FREE GAME!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Games, most of them sucky, some of them bleh,\u00a0some of them really good and some will be awesome. I will\u00a0reveal the prize (for example: Beautiful Katamari for Xbox 360) at the beginning of the contest. And the contest is a simple essay contest. In no more than 400 words, tell me a gaming memory in the Comments section (there will be a theme or topic &#8211; for example: games as healing) and I will allow both positive and negative stories. We&#8217;ll do this on the 1st and fifteenth of each month, so you&#8217;ll have about 2 weeks to compose your essay and spread the word. Sound good? Comment please, other than that, look for this in a couple weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ides&#8221; means the 15th and you should all &#8220;beware&#8221; of it because it marks the day that GamerDad.com began buying YOUR stories about YOUR kids and games &#8211; or YOURSELF and video games. How will I &#8220;buy&#8221; them? Well, you&#8217;ll get your name and story made famous and I&#8217;ll link the story to the game [&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-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}