{"id":102407,"date":"2016-08-29T09:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102407"},"modified":"2016-08-29T09:36:32","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T07:36:32","slug":"belgian-headmaster-creates-a-pokemon-go-for-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/102407-belgian-headmaster-creates-a-pokemon-go-for-books","title":{"rendered":"Belgian headmaster creates a Pokemon GO for books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the massive success of Pokemon GO, a Belgian Headmaster has created a &#8220;Pokemon GO for books&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using a camera and GPS signal however, Aveline Gregoire&#8217;s version is played through a Facebook group called &#8220;Chasseurs de livres&#8221; (&#8220;Book hunters&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Players post pictures and hints about where they have hidden a book and others go to hunt them down. Once someone has finished reading a book, they &#8220;release it back into the wild&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I was arranging my library, I realized I didn&#8217;t have enough space for all my books. Having played Pokemon Go with my kids, I had the idea of releasing the books into nature,&#8221; Gregoire told <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/offbeat\/belgians-are-hunting-books-instead-of-pokemon\/ar-BBw6N9W\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The group has already attracted over 40,000 members in its first week.<\/p>\n<p>Following this immense popularity, Gregoire is now contemplating taking the game a step further and creating an app for it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102235-no-mans-sky-review-an-awe-inspiring-journey.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">No Man\u2019s Sky review \u2014 an awe-inspiring journey<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101880-5-awesome-pc-games-you-didnt-know-were-coming-in-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 awesome PC games you didn\u2019t know were coming in 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/102190-everything-you-need-to-know-about-xbox-scorpio.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Everything you need to know about Xbox Scorpio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the massive success of Pokemon GO, a Belgian Headmaster has created a &#8220;Pokemon GO for books&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,2226,6],"tags":[31,20114,20314],"class_list":["post-102407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-mobile","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-book","tag-pokemon-go"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102417,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102407\/revisions\/102417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}