{"id":83,"date":"2003-07-09T13:06:39","date_gmt":"2003-07-09T18:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=83"},"modified":"2003-07-09T13:06:39","modified_gmt":"2003-07-09T18:06:39","slug":"summer-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"Summer Read #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dungeonsanddreamers.com\/\">Dungeons &#038; Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once upon a time, I thought about writing my dissertation about cyberpunk, the &#8216;hacker&#8217; figure, and traditions of the hero.  Potential title: <i>From Geek to Chic: Hero Figures and Protogonists Who Wear Pocket Protectors<\/i>.  Alas, I would have been scooped (at least in title).<\/p>\n<p>In any case, the number of books coming out on computer gaming culture is growing, which makes this dissertator happy (hey, they *do* publish books on gaming) and a touch nervous (call me Scoop &#8230; or Scooped?).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-print"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/misc.wordherders.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}