{"id":1376,"date":"2006-11-21T17:48:13","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T21:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=1376"},"modified":"2008-01-23T18:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-01-23T23:01:34","slug":"bill-o%e2%80%99reilly-slams-ps3-launch-gamers-ipods-digital-tech-not-in-that-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1376","title":{"rendered":"Bill O&#8217;Reilly Slams PS3 Launch, Gamers, iPods, Digital Tech (not in that order)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/BOR.jpg\" id=\"image1375\" alt=\"BOR.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/gamepolitics.com\/2006\/11\/18\/bill-oreilly-slams-playstation-3-launch-gamers-ipods-tech-not-in-that-order\/\">Bill O&#8217;Reilly Slams PS3 Launch, Gamers, iPods, Digital Tech (not in that order)<\/a> is a story with partial transcript on a recent O&#8217;Reilly (of the &#8220;no spin zone&#8221;) rant about technology prompted by the PS3.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>American society is changing for the worse because of the machines&#8230; In the past to flee the real world people usually chose drugs or alcohol&#8230; now you don&#8217;t have to do that, Now all you have to do is have enough money to buy a machine&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder if TV shows (like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billoreilly.com\/\">O&#8217;Reilly Factor<\/a>) or books qualify as technologies that are used to flee the real world?<br \/>\nThe story is in a blog <a href=\"http:\/\/gamepolitics.com\/\">GamePolitics.com<\/a> that I just found. Lots of posts on the PS3 launch and related violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly Slams PS3 Launch, Gamers, iPods, Digital Tech (not in that order) is a story with partial transcript on a recent O&#8217;Reilly (of the &#8220;no spin zone&#8221;) rant about technology prompted by the PS3. American society is changing for the worse because of the machines&#8230; In the past to flee the real world people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=1376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bill O&#8217;Reilly Slams PS3 Launch, Gamers, iPods, Digital Tech (not in that order)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376","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=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}