{"id":232,"date":"2003-08-27T03:16:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-27T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:41:24","slug":"232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/27\/232\/","title":{"rendered":"ZOUNDS!  Someone Throw An Atari Party, Stat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pejmanesque.com\/archives\/004055.html\" target=\"new\">Pejman<\/a> links to a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/2003_08_24_volokh_archive.html#106192680664426161\" target=\"new\">The Volokh Conspiracy<\/a> that describes a story (whew!  blogosphere lineages can sound like the beginning of a Viking epic, wot?) about <a href=\"http:\/\/channels.netscape.com\/ns\/atplay\/package.jsp?name=fte\/bornbefore\/bornbefore\" target=\"new\">the life college freshmen know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Particularly interesting numbered points (which technical writers know should be <i>bulleted<\/i> since they do not define a prescribed <i>order<\/i>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n9.  Atari predates them, as do vinyl albums.<\/p>\n<p>11. They have likely never played Pac Man and have never heard of Pong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Zounds!  Someone should start a charity or something.  Perhaps some government-sponsored history of arcade games!<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, get off my lawn, you damn kids!  I have video games and console systems older than you!  Where&#8217;s that garden hose?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pejman links to a post on The Volokh Conspiracy that describes a story (whew! blogosphere lineages can sound like the beginning of a Viking epic, wot?) about the life college freshmen know. Particularly interesting numbered points (which technical writers know should be bulleted since they do not define a prescribed order): 9. Atari predates them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21498,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/21498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}