{"id":4744,"date":"2015-02-28T10:19:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T10:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/?p=4744"},"modified":"2015-03-01T12:45:45","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:45:45","slug":"games-and-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/02\/28\/games-and-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Games and Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this video advertisement in the subway last week. A young women is featured who, along with her friends, is transformed into the characters in the video game itself. . The advertisement represents quite accurately\u00a0the increasing blending of daily life with\u00a0game life for young Koreans. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that for some, the life of <!--more-->messaging and gaming (which involves exchanges with friends represented by avatars) is the primary experience.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-4744 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/02\/28\/games-and-reality\/2015-02-19-15-13-06\/#main'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/2015-02-19-15-13-06-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-4745\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-4745'>\n\t\t\t\tThis video advertising a new video game features the transformation of the characters in a young women&#8217;s life 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A young women is featured who, along with her friends, is transformed into the characters in the video game itself. . The advertisement represents quite accurately\u00a0the increasing blending of daily life with\u00a0game life for young Koreans. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that &#8230; <a title=\"Games and Reality\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/2015\/02\/28\/games-and-reality\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Games and Reality\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9296425,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10659529],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9296425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/green-liberty.org\/circlesandsquares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}