{"id":97,"date":"2008-07-02T15:56:14","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/?p=97"},"modified":"2008-07-02T15:56:14","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T15:56:14","slug":"sports-and-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/sports-and-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports and games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some really interesting things happening at the moment with games and their potential to make us more active. I said a long while ago that the only way a running machine could be made even slightly palatable for me was if it was part of a 3D virtual world with stuff (e.g. robots, dinosaurs, zombies &#8211; all good) chasing you, and things to think about and interact with while you were running. Now it looks like we might be getting there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7474078.stm\" target=\"_blank\">recent article<\/a> from the BBC describes some of the new technologies available for &#8216;making fit fun&#8217; and makes some interesting points, particularly hitting on what, I think, is a key advantage of games to encourage physical activity, pointing out that &#8220;it helps associate physical activity with feeling good, not feeling bad, and that&#8217;s a powerful, life-changing shift&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>(Another <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/technology\/7485089.stm\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a>, also from the BBC, goes further &#8211; there is some evidence that games don&#8217;t only have the power to make us fit, they can be used in pain control and treatment of psychological problems.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s some really interesting things happening at the moment with games and their potential to make us more active. I said a long while ago that the only way a running machine could be made even slightly palatable for me&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/sports-and-games\/\">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":[62],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71sY0-1z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playthinklearn.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}