{"id":64963,"date":"2014-05-23T13:07:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64963"},"modified":"2014-05-23T13:13:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-23T11:13:58","slug":"xbox-live-gold-free-weekend-for-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/64963-xbox-live-gold-free-weekend-for-south-africa","title":{"rendered":"Xbox Live Gold free weekend for South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox 360 gamers in South Africa can enjoy the benefits of an Xbox Live Gold membership for free this weekend, according to Microsoft&#8217;s\u00a0Larry Hryb, a.k.a Major Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>Hryb made the announcement on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/majornelson\/status\/469791096382689280\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>, stating that from 1am on 24 May 2014 until the end of Sunday, 25 may 2014, SA Xbox gamers can enjoy all the benefits of Gold on the house.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Xbox Live Gold&#8217;s features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplayer gaming.<\/li>\n<li>Access to entertainment apps.<\/li>\n<li>Internet Explorer via your TV.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/63965-games-with-gold-for-may.html\">Games with Gold<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Exclusive deals and special offers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64771-blizzard-to-sue-starcraft-2-hackers.html\">Blizzard to sue Starcraft 2 hackers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64779-apple-decides-whats-good-for-you-bans-weed-dealer-game.html\">Apple decides what\u2019s good for you, bans weed dealer game<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64787-diablo-3-to-keep-legendary-drop-rate-boost.html\">Diablo 3 to keep Legendary drop rate boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Xbox 360 owners with an internet connection can enjoy a weekend of free Xbox Live Gold membership benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64485,"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":[4],"tags":[21,851,243,79,1490],"class_list":["post-64963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-xbox","tag-headline","tag-major-nelson","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-live-gold"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64971,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64963\/revisions\/64971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}