{"id":489,"date":"2005-07-27T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-28T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2005\/07\/27\/m-means-17-you-idiots\/"},"modified":"2005-07-27T21:29:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-28T02:29:00","slug":"m-means-17-you-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/2005\/07\/27\/m-means-17-you-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"M means 17+ you idiots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/sqlrob\/13700.html\">I love this man.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/TECH\/fun.games\/07\/27\/game.lawsuit.ap\/index.html\">Stupid Granny<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You bought a clearly marked, M rated game for your 14 year old grandson.  Lawsuit dismissed.&#8221;   <font size=1>At least, it ought to be.<\/font><\/p>\n<p>Here&apos;s a terrific commentary on the subject:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/commentary\/la-oe-johnson27jul27,0,1432940.story?coll=la-news-comment-opinions\">Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&apos;m writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; series.<\/p>\n<p>I&apos;d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has captured the attention of millions of kids &#8211; a game that instills aggressive thoughts in the minds of its players, some of whom have gone on to commit real-world acts of violence and sexual assault after playing.<\/p>\n<p>I&apos;m talking, of course, about high school football.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this man. Stupid Granny &#8211; &#8220;You bought a clearly marked, M rated game for your 14 year old grandson. Lawsuit dismissed.&#8221; At least, it ought to be. Here&apos;s a terrific commentary on the subject: Hillary vs. the Xbox: Game over I&apos;m writing to commend you for calling for a $90-million study on the effects of video games on children, and in particular the courageous stand you have taken in recent weeks against the notorious &#8220;Grand Theft Auto&#8221; series. I&apos;d like to draw your attention to another game whose nonstop violence and hostility has captured the attention of millions of kids &#8211; a game that instills aggressive thoughts in the minds of its players, some of whom have gone on to commit real-world acts of violence and sexual assault after playing. I&apos;m talking, of course, about high school football.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robandjen.com\/jen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}