{"id":1118,"date":"2008-12-06T22:41:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T02:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/06\/the-symposium-is-on\/"},"modified":"2008-12-06T22:41:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T02:41:58","slug":"the-symposium-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/06\/the-symposium-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The Symposium is On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I pointed you to some questions Shawn Elliott was going to pose to a symposium on game reviews that never quite got off the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shawnelliott.blogspot.com\/2008\/12\/commencing-countdown.html\">Well, it&#8217;s on.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And he has gathered some of the best and most interesting writers in the business. My respect for Tom Chick, Kieron Gillen and N&#8217;gai Croal needs no further comment. Leigh Alexander is one of the best minds writing about gaming today, and is always provocative without being annoying. Robert Ashley was Elliott&#8217;s partner in crime at 1up, but he&#8217;s contributed a bunch of great features to Ziff.<\/p>\n<p>And all the rest. Really no second stringers in that lot. It&#8217;s not Murderer&#8217;s Row, but maybe the Gashouse Gang.<\/p>\n<p>Even though I&#8217;m exhausted by discussion on this topic, the line up here makes me curious as to what will come out. I know some of these guys\/gal through their work and other comments, so I don&#8217;t expect a lot of surprises. But if one pops up, I&#8217;ll be sure to comment.<\/p>\n<p>Mostly, I&#8217;ll follow the conversation where it transpires and encourage you all to pay attention, too. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of days ago, I pointed you to some questions Shawn Elliott was going to pose to a symposium on game reviews that never quite got off the ground. Well, it&#8217;s on. And he has gathered some of the best and most interesting writers in the business. My respect for Tom Chick, Kieron Gillen [&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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-i2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118"}],"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=1118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}