{"id":54882,"date":"2013-06-06T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54882"},"modified":"2013-06-06T10:10:39","modified_gmt":"2013-06-06T08:10:39","slug":"man-chooses-jail-to-escape-playing-xbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54882-man-chooses-jail-to-escape-playing-xbox","title":{"rendered":"Man chooses jail to escape playing Xbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man under house-arrest in New Zealand has asked to serve the remainder of his sentence in jail because he has become \u201csick of playing Xbox\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year old has served 11 months of his 12 month sentence, but has now \u201crun out of Xbox games to play\u201d and is happy to go the slammer for his remaining month.<\/p>\n<p>The man called the police to tell them that he would breach his detention if the police didn\u2019t pick him up and take him to prison, which they did.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t mind a 12-month house arrest, maybe I\u2019ll finish up some of the extraordinary backlog of games that I\u2019ve managed to neglect.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northernadvocate.co.nz\/news\/a-whangarei-man-who-was-sick-of-playing-x-boxwhile\/1895441\/\" target=\"_blank\">Northern Advocate<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/54330-internets-hilarious-reaction-to-xbox-one-reveal.html\">Internet\u2019s hilarious reaction to Xbox One reveal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/50300-top-5-limb-tearing-games.html\">Top 5 limb-tearing games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46858-psychologists-say-torturing-sims-is-normal.html\">Psychologists say torturing Sims is \u201cnormal\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s only so many games one can play<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":54884,"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":[2],"tags":[4567,21,1841,243,79,10241],"class_list":["post-54882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-funny","tag-headline","tag-wtf","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54885,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54882\/revisions\/54885"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}