{"id":950,"date":"2008-05-12T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T19:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/poetical-cynicism\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T15:36:52","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T19:36:52","slug":"poetical-cynicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2008\/05\/12\/poetical-cynicism\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetical Cynicism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chewingpixels.com\/\">Chewing Pixels<\/a>&#8216; Simon Parkham on Game, Set, Watch has treated us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesetwatch.com\/2008\/05\/chewing_pixels_a_cautionary_ta.php\">to a wonderful little poem about the downward spiral of a prospective games journalist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFor a while<br \/>\nIt worked out<br \/>\nTill he married and chose to breed:<br \/>\nTen pence a word a family will not feed.<\/p>\n<p>So he worked<br \/>\nTen times harder,<br \/>\nSo he aged<br \/>\nTen times faster<br \/>\nAnd sooner or later the games bored him:<br \/>\nTen a week, not one would floor or awe him<\/p>\n<p>Every one seemed quite the same<br \/>\nShades of principles arcane:<\/p>\n<p>For every one that mattered some<br \/>\nA hundred thousand mattered none<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chewing Pixels&#8216; Simon Parkham on Game, Set, Watch has treated us to a wonderful little poem about the downward spiral of a prospective games journalist. For a while It worked out Till he married and chose to breed: Ten pence a word a family will not feed. So he worked Ten times harder, So he [&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":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-fk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950"}],"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=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}