{"id":758,"date":"2013-09-20T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=758"},"modified":"2024-05-28T08:14:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-28T12:14:40","slug":"gamasutra-opinion-the-tragedy-of-grand-theft-auto-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Sharing an essay by Leigh Alexander, from the Gamasutra website: The tragedy of Grand Theft Auto V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/200648\/Opinion_The_tragedy_of_Grand_Theft_Auto_V.php'>Gamasutra &#8211; Opinion: The tragedy of Grand Theft Auto V<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For my own much earlier piece on the bizarre metaphysics of video games, plus one way to think about video games&#8217; links to early animated cartoons, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swarthmore.edu\/Humanities\/pschmid1\/essays\/gamer\/gamer.intro.html\" title=\"Gamer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gamer<\/a> (1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamasutra &#8211; Opinion: The tragedy of Grand Theft Auto V. For my own much earlier piece on the bizarre metaphysics of video games, plus one way to think about video games&#8217; links to early animated cartoons, see Gamer (1999).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1,10],"tags":[91,89,90,92,24,88],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1286,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/1286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/pschmid1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}