{"id":2299,"date":"2008-12-19T19:23:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2008-12-19T19:23:28","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T00:23:28","slug":"pushing-play-dr-mom-reviews-grand-theft-auto-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2299","title":{"rendered":"Pushing Play: Dr. Mom Reviews Grand Theft Auto 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing Play, a gaming blog and review site set up by a student of mine has introduced a neat feature &#8211; reviews by Jacob&#8217;s Mom. The first is, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pushingplay.com\/2008\/09\/27\/dr-mom-reviews-grand-theft-auto-4\/\">Dr. Mom Reviews &#8211; Grand Theft Auto 4<\/a> and she nicely describes her reaction to the language in and around certain games:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wondered aloud why such homophobic, and sexist language was considered acceptable. Most alarmingly, my son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reaction suggested that this was white noise to a generation of players. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not playing online\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. Apparently online gamers indulge in exchanging even more extreme obscenities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As far as I can tell, this is the only such Dr. Mom review, but more are promised. Lets lobby Jacob to encourage Dr. Mom to do some more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pushing Play, a gaming blog and review site set up by a student of mine has introduced a neat feature &#8211; reviews by Jacob&#8217;s Mom. The first is, Dr. Mom Reviews &#8211; Grand Theft Auto 4 and she nicely describes her reaction to the language in and around certain games: I wondered aloud why such &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2299\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pushing Play: Dr. Mom Reviews Grand Theft Auto 4<\/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-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","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=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}