{"id":616,"date":"2007-04-05T11:26:40","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T15:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/05\/escapist-is-full-of-it\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T03:44:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T07:44:41","slug":"escapist-is-full-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/04\/05\/escapist-is-full-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapist is Full of It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Full of the Spirit, that is.<\/p>\n<p>Religion in gaming is a pet topic of mine, so I thought <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/91\">I&#8217;d link to this month&#8217;s Escapist<\/a>. I&#8217;ll point to two articles in particular for your reading pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>I love <em>Nethack<\/em> clones and loved to hate <em>Ragnarok<\/em>. So i enjoyed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/91\/17\">Christian McCrea&#8217;s article on that cursed game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The strongest piece is, in my opinion, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/issue\/91\/13\">Lara Crigger&#8217;s think-piece on the problem of faith in games<\/a>. Drawing on a (in my mind artificial) distinction between <em>The Book of Job<\/em> and the Apostolic tradition, Crigger writes about the place of doubt in faith and games. Though the title suggests that Christian games are impossible, at the end she implies that they are only very, very, very difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full of the Spirit, that is. Religion in gaming is a pet topic of mine, so I thought I&#8217;d link to this month&#8217;s Escapist. I&#8217;ll point to two articles in particular for your reading pleasure. I love Nethack clones and loved to hate Ragnarok. So i enjoyed Christian McCrea&#8217;s article on that cursed game. The [&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":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-9W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}