{"id":183,"date":"2005-07-12T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-12T16:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2006-08-19T19:44:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-19T23:44:20","slug":"gamerdad-interviewed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2005\/07\/12\/gamerdad-interviewed\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamerdad interviewed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Josh over at <a href=\"http:\/\/cathodetan.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/interview-with-gamerdad.html\">Cathode Tan has a great interview<\/a> with Gamerdad himself, Andrew Bub.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with Gamerdad, it&#8217;s a website devoted to assessing the suitability of games and other entertainment for children. But this isn&#8217;t a bluestocking site. Andrew is one of the better freelance game reviewers out there, and really knows his stuff. But, as a father, he also has some idea of what is suitable for his children.<\/p>\n<p>And he doesn&#8217;t just look at the big hits and tell you the obvious (<i>Doom 3 is not for kids<\/i>), he also looks at some of the stuff targeted to children and looks at how good it is. So Andrew provides a dual service &#8211; is this stuff any good, and how good is it for your children?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not alone. He has a lot of good writers on staff and a very active forum. Gamerdad has become an essential site for me, even though I have no children of my own. Andrew provides an important service that complements the meagre efforts of the ESRB and the hysterics of the anti-gaming lobby. Gamerdad is a voice of reason and sanity in an environment with too little of both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh over at Cathode Tan has a great interview with Gamerdad himself, Andrew Bub. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Gamerdad, it&#8217;s a website devoted to assessing the suitability of games and other entertainment for children. But this isn&#8217;t a bluestocking site. Andrew is one of the better freelance game reviewers out there, and really knows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-2X","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}