{"id":39,"date":"2007-11-30T10:29:39","date_gmt":"2007-11-30T10:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=39"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T16:12:43","slug":"essays-on-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/essays-on-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"Essays on gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kcts\/videogamerevolution\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Video Game Revolution <\/a>web site contains a lot of info on the history and development of video games. It&#8217;s more aimed at those with a interest in games rather than educational games, but the section on the impact of gaming has some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/kcts\/videogamerevolution\/impact\/essays.html\" target=\"_blank\">essays <\/a>that are worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Video Game Revolution web site contains a lot of info on the history and development of video games. It&#8217;s more aimed at those with a interest in games rather than educational games, but the section on the impact of gaming has some interesting essays that are worth a look.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources","tag-web-links"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-D","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":736,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}