{"id":1102,"date":"2006-01-27T01:08:52","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T05:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2006-01-27T01:08:52","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T05:08:52","slug":"need-for-speed-in-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Need for Speed in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another tragedy that is being tied to computer games. On Thursday one of two teenagers racing their parent&#8217;s Merc T-boned a taxi driver killing him &#8230; days before he would become a Canadian citizen. The Globe carried it on the front page with a photo and diagram, see <a title=\"A Canadian dream cut short\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20060126\/RACE26\/TPNational\/?query=Need for speed\">A Canadian dream cut short<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of games in the EA series, <a title=\"The Need for Speed games\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/TPStory\/LAC\/20060126\/RACEGAME26\/TPNational\/?query=Need for speed\">The Need for Speed<\/a> was in the crashed Merc.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The video game police found in the car allows players to select custom-made cars to race in urban traffic, Det. Lobsinger said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have this game that&#8217;s all about fast cars and racing through city streets. It&#8217;s actually really ironic,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there a causal connection, or is it just irony?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another tragedy that is being tied to computer games. On Thursday one of two teenagers racing their parent&#8217;s Merc T-boned a taxi driver killing him &#8230; days before he would become a Canadian citizen. The Globe carried it on the front page with a photo and diagram, see A Canadian dream cut short. One of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1102\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Need for Speed in Toronto<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}