{"id":71,"date":"2004-12-10T16:11:58","date_gmt":"2004-12-10T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=71"},"modified":"2016-06-15T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T09:53:01","slug":"games-are-too-violent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/10\/games-are-too-violent\/","title":{"rendered":"Games are too Violent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that gets my goat at the moment is the coverage that games need regulating and clearer ratings to help parents make informed choices&#8230; well excuse me, games have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elspa.com\/about\/ELSPA-PEGI-leaflet.pdf\">age ratings<\/a>.  and not only that we also show a graphic to indicate what might be in the game &#8211; which is more than the video industry does!<\/p>\n<p>So before the media gets on its soap box and blames video games for a whole host of things, lets think&#8230; can you read? If so, then as a parent you have a informed choice already, if you can&#8217;t &#8211; don&#8217;t buy your kids a game, instead spend the money and go to night school. <\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing that gets my goat at the moment is the coverage that games need regulating and clearer ratings to help parents make informed choices&#8230; well excuse me, games have age ratings. and not only that we also show a graphic to indicate what might be in the game &#8211; which is more than the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/12\/10\/games-are-too-violent\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Games are too Violent&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-19","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6295,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/6295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}