{"id":706,"date":"2007-07-17T10:48:57","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/17\/escapist-106\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T14:25:22","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T18:25:22","slug":"escapist-106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/17\/escapist-106\/","title":{"rendered":"Escapist 106"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/features\/\">The new Escapist<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_106\/1286-Can-t-Wait-Till-Tomorrow\">an article from yours truly<\/a> about games journalism. I struggled a bit with this piece and there was some back and forth with the editors Russ Pitts and Joe Blacanto. It was eventually cut down some because it lost its thread a bit. Maybe my central conceit couldn&#8217;t hold the longer form. I lost some stuff I liked, but ultimately they made the right call I think.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the thing about writing. Sometimes things only work halfway well. A good editor will help you find your feet.<\/p>\n<p>So visit for my article, but stay for Russ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_106\/1290-To-Hear-Ourselves-Review\">review of reviews<\/a> and Sanya Weathers&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/issues\/issue_106\/1289-Tweety-s-Song\">ruminations on the evolution of the web media<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Escapist has an article from yours truly about games journalism. I struggled a bit with this piece and there was some back and forth with the editors Russ Pitts and Joe Blacanto. It was eventually cut down some because it lost its thread a bit. Maybe my central conceit couldn&#8217;t hold the longer [&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-bo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}