{"id":1014,"date":"2008-08-01T09:29:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T13:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/01\/print-screen-7-this-gaming-life\/"},"modified":"2008-08-01T09:29:23","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T13:29:23","slug":"print-screen-7-this-gaming-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/01\/print-screen-7-this-gaming-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Print Screen 7: This Gaming Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Rossignol is one of the brilliant Brits behind <a href=\"http:\/\/rockpapershotgun.com\">Rock, Paper, Shotgun<\/a>. And he&#8217;s written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/columns\/2008-07-31\/print-screen-this-gaming-life.aspx\">one of the year&#8217;s most delightful books on gaming<\/a>. It&#8217;s probably best suited for people curious about gaming, but even experienced gamers will appreciate the prose and anecdotes in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FThis-Gaming-Life-Travels-Cities%2Fdp%2F0472116355%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1217597254%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=flaofste-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">This Gaming Life<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=flaofste-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not perfect, but it is well-crafted and, interestingly, not fully formed. A lot of it reads like Rossignol is still working some things out. Which is fine with me. This isn&#8217;t the last book on gaming culture you&#8217;ll ever need, but it could be the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Rossignol is one of the brilliant Brits behind Rock, Paper, Shotgun. And he&#8217;s written one of the year&#8217;s most delightful books on gaming. It&#8217;s probably best suited for people curious about gaming, but even experienced gamers will appreciate the prose and anecdotes in This Gaming Life. It&#8217;s not perfect, but it is well-crafted and, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-gm","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}