{"id":867,"date":"2008-04-08T20:06:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=867"},"modified":"2008-04-08T20:06:22","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T02:06:22","slug":"downard-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/08\/downard-spiral\/","title":{"rendered":"Downward spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-868 alignright\" style=\"float: right;\" title=\"Violent crime vs violent games\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"Violent crime vs violent games\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a>This graph showed up on digg the other day.  While statistics can be used to prove anything, it&#8217;s a pretty interesting comparison between ultra-violent game releases and real violence.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-868\" title=\"Violent crime vs violent games\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime.jpg\" alt=\"Violent crime vs violent games\" width=\"500\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime.jpg 713w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime-300x239.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/crime-375x300.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So what do you think?  Does it mean anything?  Can you give an explanation?  Does it change your opinion on the gaming violence debate at all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This graph showed up on digg the other day. While statistics can be used to prove anything, it&#8217;s a pretty interesting comparison between ultra-violent game releases and real violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}