{"id":1124,"date":"2008-12-11T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/11\/rise-of-nations-is-good-for-you\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T18:11:25","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T22:11:25","slug":"rise-of-nations-is-good-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/12\/11\/rise-of-nations-is-good-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise of Nations is Good for You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I go back and forth over whether <em>Rise of Nations<\/em> is my favorite RTS or the best RTS or one of my three favorite or one of the three best. These are important distinctions.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Illinois, however, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesoftheinternet.com\/27741.html\">has found that playing <em>Rise of Nations<\/em> helps seniors<\/a> in a range of other cognitive processing skills, many of which are not directly applicable to playing games.<\/p>\n<p>(seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/\">The Escapist<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I go back and forth over whether Rise of Nations is my favorite RTS or the best RTS or one of my three favorite or one of the three best. These are important distinctions. The University of Illinois, however, has found that playing Rise of Nations helps seniors in a range of other cognitive processing [&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":[29,22,41],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-i8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124"}],"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=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}