{"id":2113,"date":"2008-05-01T12:10:30","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2113"},"modified":"2008-05-01T12:13:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-01T17:13:21","slug":"the-potted-expert-on-chch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2113","title":{"rendered":"The potted expert on CHCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/gta4.jpg\" alt=\"Image off video\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just used up 5 of my 15 minutes of fame as a local computer games expert in Hamilton. CHCH, our local television channel has a segment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2108\">Grand Theft Auto IV<\/a> yesterday and they <a href=\"http:\/\/canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/canwest-chchnews-pub01-live\/current\/launch.html?maven_playerId=chchmain&amp;maven_referralObject=ec2c38e0-7cf0-4e9d-8dc1-f65d71ea5cb8\">interviewed me<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2085\">Jacob<\/a>. (See the video <a href=\"http:\/\/canwest.a.mms.mavenapps.net\/mms\/rt\/1\/site\/canwest-chchnews-pub01-live\/current\/launch.html?maven_playerId=chchmain&amp;maven_referralObject=ec2c38e0-7cf0-4e9d-8dc1-f65d71ea5cb8\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>They should have interviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanities.mcmaster.ca\/~mactavis\/\">Andrew Mactavish<\/a>, but he is on leave and I&#8217;m teaching his games course. My sense from following the news is that the story is not playing out in the mainstream the way I expected &#8211; the mainstream news are more intrigued by GTA 4 and its reception in the gaming community. Of course, as Andrew pointed out in a conversation, Rockstar could have hidden some provocative parts to be discovered which will stir things up.<\/p>\n<p>I note that the interview with me was taken in the <a href=\"http:\/\/lyons.mcmaster.ca\/\">Lyons Instructional Media Centre<\/a>&#8216;s game viewing room. How many libraries have one of those?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just used up 5 of my 15 minutes of fame as a local computer games expert in Hamilton. CHCH, our local television channel has a segment on Grand Theft Auto IV yesterday and they interviewed me and Jacob. (See the video here.) They should have interviewed Andrew Mactavish, but he is on leave and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2113\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The potted expert on CHCH<\/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":[4,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games","category-media-and-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113","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=2113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}