{"id":3572,"date":"2011-04-08T13:52:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=3572"},"modified":"2011-04-08T13:52:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T18:52:12","slug":"gamification-ditching-reality-for-a-game-isnt-as-fun-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3572","title":{"rendered":"Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Kevin a discussion of Gamification from Slate Magazine. The article by Heather Chaplin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2289302\/pagenum\/all\/\">Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds<\/a> (Tuesday, March 29, 2011) discusses Jane McGonigal&#8217;s book <em>Reality Is Broken<\/em> among other things. Chaplin makes the point that gamification isn&#8217;t really that fun and that it is hardly likely to help with the serious ways reality is broken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kevin a discussion of Gamification from Slate Magazine. The article by Heather Chaplin, Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds (Tuesday, March 29, 2011) discusses Jane McGonigal&#8217;s book Reality Is Broken among other things. Chaplin makes the point that gamification isn&#8217;t really that fun and that it is hardly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=3572\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gamification: Ditching reality for a game isn&#8217;t as fun as it sounds<\/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-3572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572","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=3572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3573,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3572\/revisions\/3573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}