{"id":42,"date":"2007-12-05T05:16:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-05T05:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=42"},"modified":"2008-06-27T10:51:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T10:51:24","slug":"cause-for-concern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/cause-for-concern\/","title":{"rendered":"Cause for concern?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7125426.stm\" target=\"_blank\">This article<\/a> from the BBC talks about the level of concern among parents regarding their children&#8217;s use of video games and that 43% of parents don&#8217;t understand the classification systems. Aside from the obvious issues of lumping all types of video games together and trying to blame the media for inappropriate parenting, what I find more concerning is the fact that this survey says that 63% of children play computer games alone.While this clearly needs to be considered in relation to the total time spent playing games, as opposed to other activities, it does seem a shame that the social potential of games is not being realised and that the image of the &#8216;lone gamer&#8217; persists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article from the BBC talks about the level of concern among parents regarding their children&#8217;s use of video games and that 43% of parents don&#8217;t understand the classification systems. Aside from the obvious issues of lumping all types of&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/cause-for-concern\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[32,33],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-sterotypes","tag-violence"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","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=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}