{"id":56,"date":"2012-05-04T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2012-08-15T03:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T03:00:46","slug":"why-do-i-even-bother-to-pretend-i-know-how-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/why-do-i-even-bother-to-pretend-i-know-how-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I even bother to pretend I know how to play video games anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, should I be annoyed or proud that my son has beaten\u00a0<strong>Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/strong> before me?<\/p>\n<p>I watch him fly through the end levels with the ease of a practiced expert. Gliding over obstacles, jumping and careening through danger with no more care or consideration than a buzzing bee floating lazily through a field of flowers. He&#8217;s masterful in his precision, moving with grace and confidence. A skill forged through the fires of tireless repetition and an incredibly patient trial-and-error persistence.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention he&#8217;s only\u00a0six? &#8216;Cause he&#8217;s only <em>six<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I think I&#8217;m going to go with <em><strong>proud<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, should I be annoyed or proud that my son has beaten\u00a0Super Mario Galaxy 2 before me? I watch him fly through the end levels with the ease of a practiced expert. Gliding over obstacles, jumping and careening through danger with no more care or consideration than a buzzing bee floating lazily through a field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[65,125,124,126],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","tag-family","tag-kids","tag-super-mario-galaxy-2","tag-wii","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}