{"id":5920,"date":"2010-05-10T00:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-09T22:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"barack-obama-games-are-putting-new-pressures-on-our-country-and-on-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5920-barack-obama-games-are-putting-new-pressures-on-our-country-and-on-our-democracy","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama: Games are \u201cputting new pressures on our country and on our democracy\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Oh, those politicalistic people, always coming up with something new and stupid. Now apparently entertainment is a perfidious distraction from education. Because that&rsquo;s never been true. I mean, I&rsquo;m sure I never missed any classes reading books under the desk. Oh, wait. I did.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to graduates at Hampton University in Virginia, American prez Barack Obama dropped this soundbite: &ldquo;With iPods and iPads, Xboxes and PlayStations -none of which I know how to work &#8211; information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, maybe it&rsquo;s just because he doesn&rsquo;t know how to work them, really. I mean, figuring that stuff out is so time consuming and intimidating. You have to read manuals and everything.<\/p>\n<p>He also added that, &ldquo;All of this is not only putting new pressures on you. It is putting new pressures on our country and on our democracy,&rdquo; because a bunch of people playing Halo on Xbox LIVE is bad for America, and possibly fomenting communist ideologies and public subversion.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You&rsquo;ve been warned, America. Everywhere else is safe, though.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now Halo is a threat to national security or something<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}