{"id":714,"date":"2008-03-18T05:40:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/2008-03-18\/the-onion-exposes-wii\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T05:40:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T11:40:20","slug":"the-onion-exposes-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/18\/the-onion-exposes-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Exposes Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/birdo1.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"birdo1.jpg\" \/>In a fit of journalistic daring-do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/wii_video_games_blamed_for_rise_in\">the Onion newspaper has exposed the true danger posed by the Wii&#8217;s motion controlled sensitivity<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t teach our kids to\u00a0kill,\u00a0but it might teach them to mince. Sometimes satire\u00a0is the best way to show how lame an argument\u00a0truly is.\u00a0<em>&#8220;These games are a prissy little menace to our society,&#8221; said Linda Roberts, 35, a mother of three and founder of the group Parents Against Wii, which is suing Nintendo for $52 million in damages from two recent swattings.&#8221; <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fit of journalistic daring-do the Onion newspaper has exposed the true danger posed by the Wii&#8217;s motion controlled sensitivity. It doesn&#8217;t teach our kids to\u00a0kill,\u00a0but it might teach them to mince. Sometimes satire\u00a0is the best way to show how lame an argument\u00a0truly is.\u00a0&#8220;These games are a prissy little menace to our society,&#8221; said [&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-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}