{"id":489,"date":"2006-11-14T13:54:59","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/14\/escapist-issue-71\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T13:54:59","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T17:54:59","slug":"escapist-issue-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2006\/11\/14\/escapist-issue-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapist Issue 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re not tired of talking or reading about this yet, this month&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/71\">Escapist Magazine<\/a> is all about games journalism. It has the expected bit on how blogs will\/will not save the world and a round table that, naturally, goes round and round.<\/p>\n<p>I will isolate two quotes though.<\/p>\n<p>From Simon Carless of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\">Gamasutra<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\">GameSetWatch<\/a>: <em>&#8220;But it&#8217;s the excessive and twisted introspection that is doing us harm. Let&#8217;s just write good copy, instead of picking at why we aren&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From video game critic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzcut.com\">David Thomas<\/a>: <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m more or less a print guy, but I can smell death all around me.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and Kyle Orland says you are ten years too late to make a really successful fan site. Sorry, guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you&#8217;re not tired of talking or reading about this yet, this month&#8217;s Escapist Magazine is all about games journalism. It has the expected bit on how blogs will\/will not save the world and a round table that, naturally, goes round and round. I will isolate two quotes though. From Simon Carless of Gamasutra [&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":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-7T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}