{"id":376,"date":"2008-01-21T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-01-21\/trade-ins-for-troops-launches-game-program\/"},"modified":"2008-01-21T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T17:24:24","slug":"trade-ins-for-troops-launches-game-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/21\/trade-ins-for-troops-launches-game-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade-Ins for Troops launches game program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Drew Koehler, founder of the Hardcore Christian Gaming Association, has launched a site called ‘Trade-Ins for Troops’.\u00a0 The premise is that instead of trading your games to GameStop for $2 or trading them on Goozex for a few hundred points (minus postage), you send them to the\u00a0 ‘Trade -Ins for Troops’ site and they do the rest.<\/p>\n

The website is located here<\/a>, and there is some information about legalities and so on, but as far as I can tell this isn’t a full-scale charity.\u00a0 You are simply sending away your old games in an effort to support the troops by giving them some cool games to play during down-time.<\/p>\n

A couple of notes:<\/p>\n

– I don’t have any direct knowledge of the site or its’ owners, or any vested interest in the program.<\/p>\n

–\u00a0 There is apparently a strong interest in handheld games.<\/p>\n

– Whether or not you support the war or the current administration should be a separate issue from supporting the men and women who serve in the military.\u00a0 I would think that goes without saying, but another forum I saw this on had devolved into a war pro\/con flame war.<\/p>\n

As with anything asking you for your stuff, I would suggest you look deeper before putting anything in the mail … I know I will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Drew Koehler, founder of the Hardcore Christian Gaming Association, has launched a site called ‘Trade-Ins for Troops’.\u00a0 The premise is that instead of trading your games to GameStop for $2 or trading them on Goozex for a few hundred points (minus postage), you send them to the\u00a0 ‘Trade -Ins for Troops’ site and they do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}